> > Umm, well, not necessarily. Not if what I'm doing becomes what we're
> > doing.
>
> Do tell! What have you been doing?
Well, I don't want everybody looking at it in its current (TEMPORARY!)
shambles, but I posted download instructions to this list in a reply
to Simon.
> I'm not here to try to tell everyone we're doing a rewrite - that's only
> what I was told coming in the door. From the Perl 6 press release:
>
> The next version of Perl is a chance for the language
> developers to both rewrite the internals and externals of
> Perl based on their experience from developing Perl 5, and
> Chip Salzenbergs work with Topaz.
>
> Note that we don't have to take that "chance," but I don't think we should
> turn it down lightly. I suppose a reasonable question is: can we achieve
> our goals without a rewrite? Can we succeed in integrating threading and
> Unicode where the Perl5 developers have failed, without rewriting the
> internals? I'm not qualified to say no, but I'd like to hear compelling
> arguments before I'd believe a yes!
I'm thinking of a rewrite in the sense that (by my impression) BSD was
a rewrite of Unix. Refactoring, shifting stuff around until it's easy
to get a handle on things, and replace it all a little at a time. So,
yes, these problems can be solved IMHO, after "enough" of Perl 5 has
been rewritten.
Good night.
-John
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John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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