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.

In reply to Re: Should we have PerlC and PRE? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Should we have PerlC and PRE? by dingus

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