Re^2: How would you rewrite perl community?

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Why you ask "What exactly is wrong with current perl community that it needs a rewrite?" baffles me. Ask what is wrong with other communities that don't have all this stuff.

It's an issue of timing

The question was based on that quotation from TPC4 back in 2000. The answer is what has been happening since then. All the nice things you mentioned are the rewriting of the community.

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Re^3: How would you rewrite perl community? by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jul 20, 2005 at 21:22 UTC
We've been rewriting the community a long time before TPC4. The "perl community" in that comment is really "perl5porters" which was perceived as an insular and nasty group around then. Part of the Perl6 effort was to attract people to the effort by fixing p5p. Indeed, the extended discussion of that during the first perl6 meeting was what set Jon Orwant off. -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>	[reply]

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