Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
m> whispered:
| More of this nonsense, eh? I just fail to understand the urge
| to eviscerate. Why don't we just say that Perl isn't for
| systems work anymore, and remove everything that diddles $!,
| or $?, or anything that might call anything from the C library.
Ok, here's my new RFC. This should handle all of Tom's objections:
=head1 TITLE
Perl is Tom's private domain.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Stephen P. Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8/25/2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=head1 ABSTRACT
(Dredging up really old jokes) Tom is a highly developed artificial
intelligence, not a person like everyone thinks. Tom is also completely
perfect. Therefore, we should take everything that Tom says as gospel.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
It is readily apparent that no one, except Tom, has any good ideas on what
should and should not happen to perl. Any change that anyone else suggests
must be because either they are too stupid to understand what Perl (or
perl) is, because they want a different language, or is designed strictly
to make Tom's life miserable. As such, we should all just abandon the
entire idea of perl6, unless Tom suggests a change. Every RFC which has
been submitted so far (unless Tom submitted it) should be dropped.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
There is no implementation. Tom hasn't said we are allowed to change
anything yet. Everything is perfect.
=head1 REFERENCES
See any posting of Tom's, especially if it is an answer to someone else's
post.
