Re: RFC 357 (v2) Perl should use XML for documentation instead ofPOD

[Dan Sugalski]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote:

> Peter Scott wrote:
> > the idea is to be an extension of Larry's creative thinking 
> > process.  Neither of us is deciding what goes into Perl 6, and neither is 
> > the community - I hope.  Larry is.
> 
> Uh, then why did Larry say "perl 5 was my rewrite, perl 6 is the
> community's rewrite"?  Clearly he does not think of himself as the
> community.   He has said it:  this is *our* rewrite.

Perl 6 is going to be the community's rewrite. His design to start, but
the community's rewrite. (The alternative is to have the thing be *my*
rewrite, and I don't think we want that... :)

                                                Dan