Steve Fink wrote: > =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
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