in reply to Perl needs Zend

I read your post as utterly disrespectful to Larry Wall and all the other highly skilled people who developed perl over the last ~20 years.
Maybe there is some way we can get Larry to hand over the project to Zend. Or maybe some day Zend will build a Perl optimizer for us that will run our applications 25 times faster.
Er.. what? Do you mean Larry and gang can't pull it? He hasn't a clue and therefore perl is so darn slow? That only A Real Company can speed perl up? Get real, read dilbert.

A company with commitment to PHP as holder and developer of the perl core? Oh. Think again, and update your post thereafter, please. Your post isn't a joke, is it?

I have no hard facts to back this, but I boldly state that "The Perl Community" doesn't want to be embraced by whatever company, and that there's no need for that, anyways.

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