Re: [MacPerl] Buses and Languages (What happens if...)

[David Adler <dha@panix.com>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 11:46:50PM +0200, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
> John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net> writes:
> >Fairly early in the life-cycle of Python (and before I knew of Python's
> >existence), a question was asked:  "What happens if Guido is hit by a bus?"
> >[...]
> >Perl was once in a similar position with respect to Mr. Wall (and has moved
> >beyond it, I think).
> 
> Not sure. In terms of programming effort, Perl certainly no longer depends
> on Larry, but if he were to vanish, a civil war would break out on p5p within a
> few weeks.

Weeks?  I think you have an overoptimistic world view... :-) 

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