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in reply to Re^2: Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now
in thread Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now

Nicholas Clark is fond of saying "perl development is driven by people who haven an itch". Which basically means "something is only going to be added/changed if someone is motivated enough to do the work".
s/do the work/maintain the work/

Proofs of concept are easy(ish), patches are harder, maintaining features/modules in core is harder yet. There are a lot of great suggestions that seem to stall for lack of volunteer labor. Oh, well, that's life.

I wish these kinds of threads could be more productive than this prototypical exchange:

Tweedledee: X would be a cool feature! Tweedledum: X is hard/incompatible Tweedledee: but if X could be done, it would be great! Tweedledum: if you want X, then write the code Tweedledee: !?!

Sometimes a wish list is just a wish list.

Maybe the original article should have been titled "Five Features I Wish Someone Would Commit to Adding and Maintaining in Perl 5" -- but that doesn't exactly have the same ring. ;-)

-xdg

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