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

[Peter Scott]

At 01:38 PM 10/5/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>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.

'rewrite' is not the same as 'design', fortunately.  I fervently hope that 
the language design will be the product only of ideas Larry either came up 
with or agreed with; if we get into some voting scenario, that spells 
doom.  May I point out that COBOL was designed by a committee.

See http://dev.perl.org/rfc/meta/larry-1.txt and 
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/meta/larry-3.txt for some reassurance in this 
regard though.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies