AWOL: jpo

[Brian Wheeler]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:41 -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:03 -0800, Timothy Spaulding wrote:
> > Me too...   Good luck finding a new Perl maintainer...  :)  He/she
> > sits right next to the Assembler programmer.  :)
> 
> <wistful-musing off-topic="true">
> As much as I love Perl and I prefer it over all existing scripting
> languages I'm familiar with, it's hard to get excited about its future
> since the developers are extremely quiet about it. My only hope now is
> that other scripting languages pick up the little things that make
> developing in Perl a joy so that I and many others like me can move on.
> 
> *sigh*
> </wistful-musing>

Hear, hear!  

Perl6 is probably one of the finest examples of "second system effect"
I've ever come across...which is really sad since they kept pointing out
that they were trying very hard to avoid the SSE.

Brian