use Perl

• kudos to you (Score:1)

  by zatoichi (4897)

  I look forward to reading about what is happening to Perl6.
• good show (Score:2)

  by TeeJay (2309)

  I'd like to get our company to put some money in. After all most of our development is perl based and we'll be needing perl 6 eventually and even if we never need it we'll be able to take advantage of the parrot VM, etc.

  I'd like to get involved too but I have little time and so far my attempts at contacting people about starting things like a perl knowledgebase or application database, or revamping the main perl websites have had no results.

  It would be really cool if I knew a) who to contact and b) wha

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  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  • Re:good show (Score:1)

    by Qiang (5577)

    i agree with you 100%. a lot of projects need help from volunteer and yet they don't specify what help they need. btw, jesse++ , cheers all the way from perlchina :)
• That's how open source works... (Score:1)

  by cbrandtbuffalo (4462)

  Thanks for sharing your conclusions, and your thought process. I think many people have had some of the same thoughts, but not come to the final conclusion that the first step is theirs.

  Getting the word out has been a problem and I think the project needed exactly what you're offering to provide. I too look forward to hearing more about what is going on and with you stepping up to help, the key people don't need to stop working to publish results.
• Speaking for myself (Score:1)

  by mdxi (4658)

  ...the biggest problem with perl6 is that no one even knows what the hell it is. The existing design documents, with their appropriately religious naming scheme, are as transparent as a mud-smeared concrete wall. Nothing intelligible ever comes from whoever is working on it; no news, no updates, and certainly nothing along the lines of "here's what you can actually *do* with this...". It all reads like marketing gwana-gwana for a compiler design class.
  
  Everyone I know has basically given up on perl6, don't
  • Re:Speaking for myself (Score:1)

    by jesse (2531)

    And what does perl 5.10 have that you want?
• just one thing: (Score:1)

  by jouke (587)

  jesse++