Hi all, please reply to advocacy@perl.org alone. On Mon, 26 May 2014 21:37:37 -0400 Ricardo Signes <perl....@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
> But thy eternal summer shall not fade, > Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; > Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, > When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: > So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, > So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. > > -- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 > > We are delighted to announce perl v5.20.0, the first stable release of version > 20 of Perl 5. > Sorry for being late into the game, but - many thanks to you and to everybody. perl5-porters is a really nice community, and some people told me on freenode that they really like the mentality and friendliness of the Perl community in general. That put aside, see http://www.reddit.com/r/humor/comments/26tftr/ayn_rands_harry_potter_and_the_sorcerers_stone/chvdi9o - we can triangulate between Original, Randian, Objectivism, perl 5, and some /Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ cultists who thinks the cynical attitude of the show on the seasons past the third one (when they graduated and after Faith was taken out), is what's life is necessarily all about, instead of a life of growing from good to better to even better. What I mean is that we can admit that the old Perl 5 is dead and becoming marginal. But it may have a comeback, and we should help improve it, and realise that it was very influential and its descendants will likely be used for years to come. That put aside, it seems to me that the Python people lost a lot of their attitude lately, but now we have to deal with some of the cultism in the Haskell world. Anyway, thanks. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs Sesquipedallianism: making excessive use of long words. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
