Re^5: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl?

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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Re^6: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 03, 2009 at 01:08 UTC
(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?).	[reply]
Re^7: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by elmex (Friar) on Jan 03, 2009 at 09:37 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^8: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 03, 2009 at 09:51 UTC
I didn't post untruths. You posted: 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. The second half of that sentence may be debatable, but I don't see how the first half could be opinion. Either Perl 6 evolved, or it didn't. (I was there. I've taken 400,000 words of notes from design meetings.) It evolved. Either it throws away most of Perl 5 or it doesn't. (It hasn't.) Either the sigil syntax hasn't changed or it has. (It has.)	[reply]