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in thread How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl?

Why should I spent one minute on coding for Perl 6 when I can actually do new stuff and solve my problems with an already good language which I don't have to bugfix (Perl 5).

If everyone had the same attitude, there'd be no PerlMonks, no CPAN, no Perl 6, and no Perl 5, to name a few projects which exist due to volunteer effort.

I know pretty well what happened the last 6 years.

If you think, as you wrote:

Perl 6 didn't evolve, they threw away most of Perl 5, maybe except the sigil syntax, also things were promised that never were realized or could actually be realized, which formed a community of dreamers, following the dream of the ultimate programming language. And currently it looks like those dreamers weren't able to deliver _anything_ at least remotely stable, except a very fuzzy specification and a test suite.

... then I don't believe -- at all -- that you know what happened the past few years.

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Re^5: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl?
by elmex (Friar) on Jan 02, 2009 at 23:14 UTC
    If everyone had the same attitude, there'd be no PerlMonks, no CPAN, no Perl 6, and no Perl 5, to name a few projects which exist due to volunteer effort.

    I'm actively involved in many free software projects and I'm the maintainer of more than just one module on CPAN. I usually report any bugs I find in other peoples software. (And I in fact reported now fixed bugs I found in Perl 5). I even attend to Perl Workshops and held a talk last year. All this is pure volunteered effort.

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      (And I in fact reported now fixed bugs I found in Perl 5).

      I thought you didn't "have to bugfix" Perl 5.

      I'm actively involved in many free software projects...

      Then you really ought to know better than to ask why you should contribute to a project. Either you care about its future or you don't (and if you don't, why would you lurk on a mailing list for several years and post untruths about it in public discussions?).

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        I thought you didn't "have to bugfix" Perl 5.

        I don't have to bugfix Perl 5, because the bugs I step on are no showstopper bugs like missing features.

        (and if you don't, why would you lurk on a mailing list for several years and post untruths about it in public discussions?).

        I didn't post untruths. I posted my perspective and I said so numerous times. I said that to encourage others not to take my word as the perfect truths, but to look into it for themselves and get their own perspective. I posted my perspective so that others get an idea what perspective at least one Perlmonk has.

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