Re: [MacPerl] Developers To Polish New Perl

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 3:58 PM -0700 7/31/00, Brian McNett wrote:
>on 7/31/00 1:29 PM, Ronald J Kimball at rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu wrote:
>
>>>  The language is being rewritten "from the ground up" to bring it into the
>>>  Web-based world and let it work with other Internet technologies...
>>
>>  Well, it's about time!  You don't know how long I've wanted to use Perl in
>>  the web-based world and have it work with other Internet technologies.
>
>Six years in journalism teaches one to spot when a reporter is filling in
>the blanks.  Note where the quotation marks fall.  The reporter quotes "from
>the ground up".  He wrote that down on his note pad during the interview,
>and someone may actually hace said that.
>
>"duct tape of the web", is similarly in quotes, so clearly the reporter
>thought that was important, and someone might have actually said that.
>
>Then there's the matter of everything else, which, it should be understood,
>is the reporter filling in the blanks.  Is Larry Wall going to take on the
>task of re-writing Perl all by himself? (Chucky-boy doesn't say, does he?).
>
>As to "other Internet technologies", does Chucky-boy say *what* other
>techhnologies?  Mabye Perl doesn't work with the latest versions of the
>streaming string-cheeses protocal?  You just can't know this sort of thing.

This is all old news from the Perl Conference, which Chris reported 
on use.perl.org and news.perl.org.  The articles are there, and 
you'll get more detail there.

>
>--Brian
>
>Still, having the complete rewrite will be nice... (they're talking about
>Perl 6, correct?)
>
>
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