Re: [MacPerl] Developers To Polish New Perl

[Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:58:36 -0700, 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.

This whole thread ought to have been on <use.perl.org>. Why isn't it?

And when I read these things in the article, I had the impression that I
was reading a five year old article, about a rewrite from Perl4 to
Perl5...

BTW how can they know now, already, that Perl6 will be faster and have
better memory management? Wild claims, I would say.

-- 
	Bart.

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