On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:26:28AM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:09:18AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > This is an average for perl5-porters over its entire existence? > > I don't think that it's a reputation it deserves any more. It's very a > > very uneventful list now. > > No, I should have clarified. > > It was before perl6, when perl5 was being stretched apart and people were > begging > to add features that couldn't be accommodated. The main reason, IMO for the > tension on perl5 was related to engineering and technical reasons, the > feeling > that perl5 wasn't going places and there was no way to remedy the situation; > sort of like steam building in a pot that's closed on top of a stove.. > > Now that perl6 is going, IMO things are much smoother now.. Thanks for clarifying. Your description agrees completely with how I remember things. Nicholas Clark
