Nate Wiger skribis 2005-10-24 10:44 (-0700): > The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should > alarm people more.
I don't know about the other Perl 6 lists, are they as p5porterless? It does not alarm me that they are not *here*, this being a list where we mostly discuss the language. Perl 5's language is set in stone. It is inflexible, almost any conceivable change will be backwards incompatible in some way. P5p deals with implementation, and that too is mostly set in stone. Perl 5 has no detailed spec, so the implementation implicitly is the spec, which means that you can't just change something. We're very lucky to have some people here who care about both implementation and language. They form the bridge between the two. I personally care about the language, but not much about the implementation, as long as it gets implemented. What does alarm me is the number of people who are very familiar with Perl 5's language and guts, who hate Perl 6 and use every opportunity to whine about it. We cannot and probably should not do anything about this, but it is very alarming. It means that the Perl 6 community is not the same as the Perl 5 community is now. My take on that is that it is because Perl 6 is not a new version of Perl 5. I still think "Perl" is a misleading name, and mostly hurts the image of the language that is created here. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
