Larry Wall skribis 2008-02-21 11:15 (-0800): > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:29:05PM +0100, Juerd Waalboer wrote: > : Then backtracking would happen, or more likely: Perl 6 would die. If > : this community cannot come up with a virtual machine that can handle > : Perl 6, then many people will lose all hope. > Except that the people working on alternatives to parrot are already > doing that exploration in parallel, and therefore would have no > change in attitude.
Oh, but I would certainly not want to discourage them. For $$$-funding, however, I think it is not practical to pursue multiple approaches simultaneously. > : I do not think a *contest* would be in the best interest of Perl 6. > It's already a friendly competition. To the extent that it is perceived > as a zero-sum game, we'd lose the friendliness, I fear. Friendly competition is good, but projects competing to win a grant might hurt all of the projects severely, as well as the social structure that joins the projects in the larger Perl 6 community. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
