[OT] Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-07-02 Thread Stephen Zander
schwern == schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: schwern Sun doesn't give out its JDK source code freely, they schwern have all sorts of restrictions. If I wanted to port the schwern JDK I can do it, but I need special permission from Sun schwern to distribute it. This Sucks.

Re: [OT] Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread schwern
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:49:45PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: Perl's great blessing is also it's great curse; there's a single implementation and that *implementation* happens to be OpenSource. Try writing a second Perl implementation from scratch. Fortunately, we don't have to. :) Perl 6

Re: [OT] Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Stephen Zander [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Speaking as someone with feet firmly in both camps (I'm a Blackdown *member and the Debian maintainer for the jdk and some of the largest *perl modules in that distribution), IMNSHO the fatal assumption made *by millions of people is that Java is

Re: [OT] Re: Perl Doesn't Suck

2001-06-30 Thread Me
All, of course, imho: Were something dreadful to happen to Larry and his estate chose to change the licensing terms of the current *implementation* Well they can only do that to a copy of their own, not existing copies. While the law isn't clear on a lot of nuances related to more complex