Thank you.
I don't think my statement is overblown... In fact I enjoy writing Perl
and working with Perl, so I think its rather sad that it is so difficult
to get people to accept the idea of a single compiled executable. In a
sense, if this is the biggest problem, then that's a Good Thing. On the
other hand, it is a problem and Gurus like merlyn (who has my respect
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I don't think my statement is overblown...
True, not the gist of it.
I was specifically thinking of the "downfall of Perl" part,
which I think overstates the case a little.
Perl will continue to survive and prosper
and enable all sorts of great coding
even if its installation/module model stays exactly the same.
If the model doesn't evolve, though,
Perl-based software will remain largely of, by, and for programmers,
and remain cut off from a lot of users
who could benefit from it (IMHO).
Whether that's a direction Perl "should" take, though,
given the impact it would have on the community and ethos,
I'm not informed enough to say.
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