Re: No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything

"One of the most difficult lessons for me to learn from Perl 6 is that people who don't contribute can have all of the opinions they want... but they don't matter."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but how is submitting your opinion not contributing? Not all of us know other languages, and even those who do might not be able to grasp the complexity of the Perl interpreter.

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Re^2: No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 23, 2006 at 04:49 UTC
... how is submitting your opinion not contributing? Maybe so, but... "I don't like the syntax changes." is a useless contribution. "It's taking too long." is a useless contribution. "I don't want to rewrite my code." is a useless contribution. "Parrot is stupid." is a useless contribution. "Pugs is too slow." is probably a useless contribution. "Ruby/Python/Java/C#/Scheme/SNOBOL/Smalltalk/Lisp/hq9+ does that already and you are losing marketshare." is a useless contribution. "Coroutines and continuations are too hard." is a useless contribution. "I don't understand part of the synopsis here", "Hey, here's a little patch for a TODO item", and "I don't have time or energy or expertise to contribute but I'm looking forward to the results and appreciate all of your hard work" are useful contributions.	[reply]
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