"David Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Perl 5 is far from stagnant--please don't bend the truth to fit your
> > points. My impression is that there's quite a bit more constructive
> > activity on p5p than there was a year ago.
>
> I've stopped paying attention to P5P except for keeping an eye on the
> possibility of a new surprise upgrade from Microsoft. However, the attitude
> of the P5P is irrlevant to the user base.
>
> > : Unless Perl 6 is capable of parsing and running that 99.9% (or
> > higher) of
> > : Perl 5 scripts originally foretold, I foresee a far worse
> > outcome for Perl 6
> > : than has happened for an almost universally rejected 5.6 and 5.6.1.
> >
> > There you go again, as Uncle Ronnie used to say. Excessive hyperbole
> > will cost you sympathetic readership.
>
> Shall I list them again? Dude, it's been 13 months since 5.6 was released,
> and two commercial entities have so far accepted it: ActiveState and SuSE.
> Speaking with SuSE around October (7.0), the rep's answer getting back to me
> was simply "we don't consider it to be stable enough yet to include it in
> our distribution".
Well, it's there in Mandrake 8, and was available as an update long
before Mandrake 8 got released. Still only 5.6.0 though. Dunno about
the rest, but it's 50% more than your claim...
And remind me how long ago it was that most of the systems you're
talking about actually started to include Perl as anything other than
a 'Danger Will Robinson, unsupported contrib code' type package?
--
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
