Re: Should we have PerlC and PRE?

A big part of the problem is: Who make these decisions? The community? Larry Wall? ORA???

It would be nice if there was an organization or company who was not only involved with such decisions, but also had some financial muscle to put behind it.

Personally, I look at the PAR project as a very exciting thing, but even if it is the right solution to any current problems, it will take a longer time to develop because Perl doesn't have any thing to put behind it.

Some of you may view this as a good thing. I think you are wrong. Having such a company or organization would help Perl tremendously. Just look what IBM's and even Sun's adoption of Linux has done for Linux. Look what Zend has done for PHP. Shall I go on?

It is going to take a lot more than Perl 6 to change the prevailing opinion of Perl as a good tool, but yesterday's solution.

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Re: Re: Should we have PerlC and PRE? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Dec 08, 2002 at 01:13 UTC
I find your comments intriguing. I think you are correct on one level, but i wonder on another. For instance, Perl is now bundled with just about every major *nix OS. MS put a bunch of money into Perl (see perlfork's credits) a lot of major companies donate to YAS so that various people can have their perl development financially supported. So the picture isnt so straightforward. Although I think its hard not to come to the conclusion that YAS doesnt do a very good job of publicizing Perl. Though this could be becuase there are enough hype engines out there and perl just wants to get the job done. --- demerphq my friends call me, usually because I'm late....	[reply]
Re(2): Should we have PerlC and PRE? by cjf-II (Monk) on Dec 08, 2002 at 01:30 UTC
A big part of the problem is: Who make these decisions? Whoever steps up to the plate. I don't see any reason why it would require Larry's or anyone else's official support. This is how open source works. Although, I'm still not sure how this differs from what Parrot promises to deliver. Unless I'm missing something It would seem better to work with them rather then starting your own project. Update: Changed link from parrotcode.com (which is unrelated) to parrotcode.org (the correct site). Thanks to grantm for pointing this out.	[reply]