At 04:13 PM 10/3/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:06:00PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Personally I'm betting that the volume we've seen on -language will
> > pale into tiny insignificance compared to the volume on -internals
> > once Larry has made his announcement.
>
>I doubt it; I think we've a lot of people who want to talk about how
>Perl should be. I don't think we'll have *that* many people when it
>comes to actually trying to implement those ideas.
I'm with Simon on this. The set of people with the skills and time to
design or implement the core is significantly smaller than the set of folks
who think they can redesign some (or all) of the language. The discussion's
also likely to be more focused and less grumpy. I hope... :)
If we look at p5p, most of the traffic at any one time revolves around
design issues, not implementation. (Barring the runup to a release, when
the volume's more in OK/NOK messages) I expect the same will be true for
us, though I expect the volume of internals design traffic to be smaller
than that for language design.
Dan
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