> Why does this actually matter? Because it fosters innovation. Perl isn't innovating as an implementation. Why's that bad? Because you don't get better perfor

> Why does this actually matter? Because it fosters innovation. Perl isn't innovating as an implementation. Why's that bad? Because you don't get better performance or capabilities, and you're spending more to run it, and spending more to manage it. > Care to try with any of the others? For example Mono is a full clean-room implementation of .NET including C#. > tbh, I knew including Java on that list was a bit of a stretch Sure. Sure.