scott walters hmigvslowassnet 0 rafael garciasuarez wrote 10102007 scott walters wrote anyway kurila thing bugging thought fork perl 5 radical rework brilliant idea mean like perl 6 forking based perl 5 syntax code base throwing away cpan compatibility seems complete worthless waste time breaking cpan compat non pure perl modules ports significant xs modules refactoring rather rewritting scratch using imagined cleaner core platform work backporting perl 6isms httpwwwjoelonsoftwarecomarticlesfog0000000069html comes mind tale netscape 5 microsoft avoided disaster continuing develop legacy versions even major rewrites way dont want argue whether perl 6 materialize thats dumb question question whether perl 6 good project im people working perl 6 im people working perl 5 freak collusion circumstances perl 5 still viable years road perl 5 programmres xs module authors might happy refactored cleaned speed slightly incompatible perl 5 forks way unforking kurila 10 20 cleanups community sees action decides want half adopts kurila becomes like experimental branch less like different project breaking perl 5 terribly doesnt belong main branch doesnt mean doesnt belong anywhere want really see less rather incopatible ways breaking xs probably unavoidable dropping dog spot dashes hopes people want expand perl certain directions every spend time trying unrravel mysteries core made little headway run time wish perl 5 porter selfish angle lot legions macros went away favor vtable dispatch might able wrap head around perl 5 still viable years road reason performance reasons portability reasons debianlike skittish attitudes new software whatever life might suck lot less perl 5 land might easier new porters emerge help perl 5 might come long way ways matter syntax performance cheers scott wed 06 aug 2008 015147 0700 kurila 13 released