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Re^8: The current state of Perl6
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 20, 2010 at 08:19 UTC
    Too many people have invested too much ... for any kind of reasonable discussion to take place.

    Do you really expect to have a reasonable discussion with people to whom you ascribe of base financial motives, hostile intent to take over communities, crippling inabilities to finish projects, socially inept and almost criminal dishonesties?

    I've been working on Parrot for eight years and Perl 6 for seven. Of course I care about them. You don't have to like it and you certainly don't have to care, but you spend an awful lot of time complaining about me and how I choose to spend my time and speculating about why. Maybe we'd have a reasonable discussion if you asked me why I do this sometime and treated me like a reasonable human being with a complex and rich set of motivations, rather than some mustache-twirling villain who cackles as he plots with a bunch of other ignorant, inept conspirators to destroy Perl 5, somehow.

    Oh, and I patched the Perl 5 documentation today in between making Parrot and Rakudo a little faster. You're welcome. This one's on the house.

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Re: 835637
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 24, 2014 at 23:30 UTC
    Too many people have invested too much reputation, potential book sales, and sense of self-worth in Parrot and Perl 6 for any kind of reasonable discussion to take place.

    In retrospect, I think you were and continue to be correct. My apologies.

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Re^8: The current state of Perl6
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2010 at 03:50 UTC
    Well the fading is happening for years now. People only leave in a state of denial that its not. That is because some people love Perl so much they hate to hear about its slow death. But you need to pragmatic and realize that there is a problem.
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      they hate to hear about its slow death
      That is fine, we are in no hurry!

      Jokes aside, we have been hearing this "Perl is dying" song now for so long --always from people totally ignorant of the matter at hand-- that even they should start to think that perhaps there is no truth in their predictions?

      CountZero

      A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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      This is true
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