+1 with Boris on die and bail.
]]>What I've seen are people who are passionate about our favorite programming language struggling with some great ideas on how to push Perl 5 forward in the face of the issues Tony Inkster listed. It's a hard problem so there needs to be (and there has been) a lot of back and forth, push and pull going on.
I would characterize the discussion as "Perlish" rather than negative.
]]>For those of us who like the language we are currently programming, the Perl5 2013 concept makes a lot of sense. It conveys a sense of at least being currently maintained, even if not a sense of big, new changes. Beats the heck out of 5.18. Not the whole loaf, but a few nice slices.
"Oh look, those funny folks are still using that old Perl. Hey, they're doing updates... I thought they stopped doing that years ago. I wonder what they're up to?"
Perl++ is confusing. Perl# makes me shudder.
]]>As far as who goes, anyone is fine by me. There are many more small and medium businesses that large ones, so it would be nice to hear from them as well.
Specific questions might be primary applications, system and hardware overview, some idea of the size and age of codebase, how many developers, what other languages are used and how Perl fits into that mix. Mix of modern vs crufty Perl.
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