Thus it was written in the epistle of Matthew Persico,
> Johan Vromans wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:50:11PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > > So Larry is doing most of the evaluation for us. He's the one who
> > > gave us the good things in the Perl language we have now. He'll be
> > > the one vetoing the ridiculous ideas.
> >
> > Larry said: "Perl5 was my rewrite of Perl, Perl6 will be the community's
> > rewrite of Perl." I think it is not realistic to keep shooting around,
> > trusting Larry to prevent anyone from getting hurt. We have our own
> > responsibilities as well.
>
> In support, I got the impression that Larry wasn't even going to play
> Supreme Court on this one and that this was the whole point of all these
> groups and Perl6 - get Larry out from under all the piles of
> responsibility and to make Perl truck-proof. ;_)
If that's really the case, then the efficiency of the whole project just
dropped massively. After all, if Perl is to stay Perl and Larry has
abandoned us, then we as a community will have to function as a Larry-emulator,
a task which p5p pretty-well established as impossible. Somebody needs to
tell Larry that he can't get out of being dad to this kid even if it has
grown up a little :-).
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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For God's sake, please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion,
because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health,
peace of mind and happiness in life.
-- Bolyai, Wolfgang (1775-1856)
[Bolyai's father urging him to give up work on non-Euclidian geometry.]
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