"believable" or achievable? I heard an interesting idea late on Friday night at dinner that seemed really good.

"believable" or achievable?

Yes, I get your point. The part of the sentence with the word "believable", I copied it from LanX's post. Achievable is probably more important, but I guess the strategy has to be both credible and achievable.

Fyi, from Ovid's talk, his three self-imposed requirements for the ideas he was willing to include regarding the future of P5:
• Achievable
• No magic
• Must still look like Perl

Two words: too & late. "Perl", pre-or-post-fixed by anything, is in the hospice. Not quite dead, but terminal and only ever leaving feet first.

The seeds of its death were sewn a long time ago; by it's original author. With malice aforethought.

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With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. Suck that fhit

> I heard an interesting idea late on Friday night at dinner that seemed really good.

And where do I find the life stream? ;-)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}

I've got some emails to send on various topics all related to discussions I had outside of the conference. Hopefully I can get someone to flesh out the idea, it was more of a concept that was suggested.

I'm glad he gave this talk.

You asked where Perl 5 should be in 10 years, I tried to sketch an approach to find perspectives and ways ....