Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:48 AM 2/12/2001 -0800, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > Rushing the process because of intermittent PR problems isn't going
> > to make Perl6 any better at achieving it's goal - solving tomorrow's
> > problems better than Perl5.
>
>Again, I don't think that this would be rushing things at all. Give a 
>couple of  RFC's to chew on, announce it to the world, develop interest, 
>give the 'perl internals' people stuff to work on, generate discussion, 
>move from high-level design to medium-level design.

While I'm not in a position to rush Larry, we are starting in on the bits 
of the internals that we can do without much input from him. It's slow 
going (mainly because we've been waiting) but it has started.

Hopefully we should see some actual progress reasonably soon.

                                        Dan

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