On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:11:06AM -1000, Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >That makes me feel better about my lack of imagination :) > > > I understand that. I'd rather lack imagination than memory. > > What were we talking about? ;-) > > I hope that wasn't offensive. Obviously I was getting a bit ticked off > last night, mostly > about *any* view that Java is a roll model here. I absolutely know it is > not and felt > I had said that many times. I was submitter and owner of that case. > Trust me on > this one.
Well, my "I cannot imagine" comment was specific to the Perl case, not the Java one. > Anyway, I just always loved that expression of Mr. Eckholt's and it > seemed to fit. > I've been guilty of it many times myself. > > It will take some careful reading to see how much of the Perl work can > be seen > as valid precedent. Given what you already wrote it seems like the rationale for multiple Perl versions applies even more so to PHP and AMP in general. (And, frankly, OpenSSL; again, see my comment about DLL hell not going away as a result of not shipping multiple versions of stuff.) Nico --
