note patcat88 <ol> <li> You want to take away their control, Perl is whatever the interp folks says it is </li> <li> Larry's stack machine architecture never turned out any good, and they've been forced to live with it and defend it </li> <li> You are a for profit business trying to embrace extend and extinguish their Perl </li> <li> Many P5P who spent decades with the Perl source code do not want all their work and knowledge they learned to have been in vain </li> <li> C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Java have multiple compilers/interpreters, Perl does not, thats makes Perl special </li> </ol> 991119 991528