Re: [mv] Perl 6 and Interchange's Perl developers

[Jason Korkin <jason@korksoft.com>]

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I havent had a chance to read completely into the article, however, I
think Wall is merely trying to limit how many lists are active -- why
would we need to have a bootstrap list after the new version was released?
It could be said thats its a waste of valueable resources... but thats
just my 2-cents... 

I think that this new rewrite will be quite exciting.  I'm not too sure if
many of you remember perl 4, but the difference between versions 4 and 5
were like night and day.  Larry Wall and the Perl 5 Porters have enormous
thrust on how both you and I will develop applications and general
scripts... OO-Perl was a **very** nice thing to see come around and
hopefully they'll get a full working threaded perl out soon too!  What I'd
like to see is that they keep many of the same symantics so that all of
the version 5.x scripts we have will work under the new version. 

Well, that again is my 2 cents worth...

Jason Korkin.


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, birgitt wrote:

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> 
>  background article to this question:
>  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/19/203221
> 
> A rewrite of Perl was announced. As well as a somewhat confusing
> statement about who will do what and how this will be done.
> 
> How will Akopia make sure that their Interchange package will be
> compatible with whatever Perl comes out in the future ?
> 
> How "open" is the p6p community to Akopia's Interchange developers ? I
> don't understand what a tightly focused mailing list and a community's
> rewrite (as Mr. Wall was quoted) means in practical terms and how they
> match. Isn't that a bit scary considering how much Perl code is used
> in e-commerce ?
> 
> <quote:>
> The group hopes to re-shape Perl community, too. Instead of one
> all-encompassing perl5-porters list, tightly focused mailing lists
> with a terminal lifespan will be formed. To start off, the mailing
> list bootstrap at perl.org will be for discussion of the beginnings of
> the project. Like most, if not all, other new lists, when it has
> fulfilled its purpose, it will be closed.
> 
>  Wall said, "Perl 5 was my rewrite of perl ... I think this should be
> the community's rewrite of perl, and the community's rewrite of the
> community."
> <end of quote>
> 
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