From: "John van V." <john_van_v@...>
Date: 2001-02-12T23:36:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10725] Re: Eric S. Raymond... bad-mouthing perl too !!

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This is a an email that I sent just yesterday to perlers:
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     To:
         Edward Peschko <edwardp@corp.home.net>, Simon Cozens
<simon@cozens.net>
     CC:
         perl6-porters@perl.org

Hiya, I wasnt expecting this but here is my $.02,

Eric Raymond, is interesting but his contribtution is going to cause a 
lot more
grief than contracting revenue and salary bonuses.

Perl is frozen at 5.5.3 for me, which is not a problem.  I would like a 
virtual
machine built into the kernel, but more than anything, my industry 
(unix) needs
a rock solid kernel to get control of the operations.  

Edward Peschko and Simon Cozens :
> > Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has been
> stagnant
> > > for two years or more.
> > 
> > Bah. Looks like my Perl5-Porters summaries have been completely in 
vain. :)
> 
> yeah, he's full of BS here.


--- Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
> 
> Ruby is mentioned in the current version of a new chapter for
> Eric S. Raymond's not yet finished book "The Art Of Unix Programming"
> (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/). The last sentence of "Chapter
> 3: To C or Not To C?":
> 
> "Recent efforts such as Ruby (a sort of Python-Perl-Smalltalk cross
> developed in Japan) and Squeak (an open-source Smalltalk port) have so far
> neither attracted hackers far outside their development groups nor
> demonstrated staying power."
> (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/chapter3.html)
> 
> Anyone agrees / have comments?
> 
> /Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 


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