On Wednesday 26 March 2008 11:08:15 James Fuller wrote: > can I add a few unsolicited ruminations from a lurker; > > * just release perl 6 now and move on
To what extent? Larry "just released" Perl 5 some 13 and a half years ago, and there've been a few patches applied to it in the past 24 hours. (I wrote one of them.) If we released the current most-complete version of Perl 6 right now, we'd release code that's difficult to install, requires a difficult-to-install version of GHC, is out of date with regard to several tests and portions of the design, and is staggeringly slow. I can imagine that not everyone in the world would find that endearing. How many of them would stick around for Perl 6.01, let alone Perl 6.10? > * do not hire 40 year olds with responsibilities, convince the > young to spend their time for free ... isn't that what one is supposed > to do after the age of 40 ? I'm under 40, and I've spent five years of my life working on this for free. I don't understand this idea; where does work magically happen? > * use all funds to promote its usage, not fund its development See point one. > * look at successful OS orgs like mozilla and apache (different to > each other yes) and copy their techniques Their business plans started with: 1) start with corporate backing and paid developers We're approximately eight years late for that. > a systematic plan past these points will then be possible. I think you're assuming a lot of "MAGIC HAPPENS HERE" points. -- c
