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tl;dr - the author wants someone to re-write Perl 5 and CPAN to add some features he likes and remove some features he doesn't like.
by williadc 13y ago
tl;dr - the author wants someone to re-write Perl 5 and CPAN to add some features he likes and remove some features he doesn't like.
- petepete 13y agoIn fairness, the author is also Stevan Little, the chap who brought us Moose and Moe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(Perl) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(Perl) https://github.com/MoeOrganization/moe https://github.com/MoeOrganization/moe
- nmcfarl 13y agoMy tl;dr - The author says people are currently writing "perls" that add features that he likes and remove features that he doesn't like - and he would like us all to consider them all the perl not just the one binary. IE the future of perl is many runtimes, that are slightly incompatible.
- Mithaldu 13y ago> IE the future of perl is many runtimes, that are slightly incompatible. That is already the reality of Python and Ruby. ;)
- dragonwriter 13y ago> That is already the reality of Python and Ruby. And, Common Lisp and Scheme and Java and C and C++ and SQL and Pascal and BASIC and C# and JavaScript and ... pretty much every language that is (or ever has been) both popular enough to have interest enough to support multiple implementations and not proprietary to a single vendor.