Re^4: Hacking Perl (I think)

[FunkyMonk]

in reply to Re^3: Hacking Perl (I think)
in thread Hacking Perl (I think)

I just find it hard to imagine that there are more than a few dozen people on the planet capable of making any significant improvements to it

And there's no reason that AnonyMonk shouldn't try to become the (few dozen+1)th.

[Logicus]

That's true, but surely if He/She has what it takes to be at that level, His/Her talents would be better employed helping out with Perl 6?

[roboticus]

Logicus:

It's his itch, so he should choose when/where to scratch. I wouldn't presume to tell you to stop working on aXML to work on ?other web project thingie?.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

[Logicus]

Couldn't agree more, just wondered why he wanted to be there and if he had any cunning plans in mind what to do in there... the internals are a fascinating thing, I can't claim to understand more than like 1% of that code!