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PostgreSQL Development: Lessons for Perl?

• cosmok 17y ago
  Excellent article that dwells into release management (or lack of it) in two big open source projects.
  • kingkongrevenge 17y ago
    For the last two or three years perl 6 has soaked up all the concerted forward thinking energy, I suspect. Fortunately, perl 6 is on the home stretch now.
    • qohen 17y ago
      In fact, they say it'll be out by Xmas... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/what_the_perl_6_and_parrot_hac.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/what_the_perl_...
    • draegtun 17y ago
      Fortunately the perl6 think tank does filter down into perl5 so hence we see things like Moose, smart matches, given/when, Perl6::* and more.
      • rjurney 17y ago
        Yes, at this point - although it is looking hopeful - it is useful even as a pure R&D platform for Perl 5.
  • autarch 17y ago
    I think you mean "delves", not "dwells". Or maybe "drills"?