On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:13:47AM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > Hi, > > I am tired of people thinking that we are not getting anywhere at > all, so if (some|any|every)one can send me a reasonably updated text > for the "Where are we" section at http://www.parrotcode.org/ and > likewise for http://dev.perl.org/perl6/status then I would most > appreciate it. :-)
=pod The perl6 effort has been put on hold pending the acquisition of Ximian by O'Reilly and Associates. The new Director of Technology Development, Richard M. Stallman, states "we can't really justify any further effort on the parrot backend when Mono is clearly a superior product and is available under a better license. If we can add in some low-level dependencies on Passport, I think we'll have the world eating from our hand in less than a decade." Larry Wall was unavailable for comment, but the former Perl6 Internals Designer, Dan Sugalski, mentioned in an offhand remark "I think he's been planning on joining the Python development effort for a while anyway. Every time I've talked to him recently, he's complained 'perl just has too f*cking many ways of doing things. How can anyone ever figure out which one to use?'" =cut
