Re^3: How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl?

I just don't get why it's easier to speculate about things

As you say, there are "eight freakin' years of email" to "dig through." It's so much easier to speculate!

I've semi-casually tried to get an idea of "what's going on with Perl 6" a few times. Perhaps my attempts have been unreasonably casual, but they've not been very satisfying. Getting a good perspective is simple the same way reading the Camel from cover to cover is simple, which is to say it's easier to understand how to do it than it is to take the time to do it.

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Re^4: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 02, 2009 at 20:00 UTC
It's so much easier to speculate! I suppose one way to read that is as a complaint that we've put out far too much information about what we're doing and why.	[reply]
Re^5: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by kyle (Abbot) on Jan 02, 2009 at 20:08 UTC
You could also read it as a complaint that the information there is lacks organization and/or summarization that would make it accessible to people who want quick answers. Give a man a fish, he eats today. Teach a man to fish, he eats for life. Give a man a shelf of text books on the ecology and biology of water dwelling fauna, and he will starve before learning to fish.	[reply]