From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-10-14T06:08:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting

Hi --

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Mike Campbell wrote:

> > Just a thought: why *not* copy CPAN?  It's pretty good, isn't it?
>
> This is my thought too.  It's not like Ruby hasn't copied a lot of
> things from perl already, and perl did NOT "invent" the /C.AN/
> acronym.

No one has claimed it did.  In any case, I'm not sold on the "already
copied a lot" argument....  I think the real question is whether or
not "Comprehensive Ruby Archive Network" is a good name for raa.succ.
It doesn't do much for me personally, even leaving aside the
shadow-of-Perl issue.


David

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