Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!compass!worley From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Ruminations on the future of Perl Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 15:07:59 GMT References: <1991Jun28.020603.1069@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> Sender: root@compass.com Organization: Compass, Inc., Wakefield, MA, U.S.A. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu's message of 28 Jun 91 02:06:03 GMT In article <1991Jun28.020603.1069@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes: It's not like it's a commercial product, it's available under copyleft. People *will* continue to improve it, and we'll all benefit from the result. My belief is that it needs a *lot* of improvement -- many times more work than has been put into it so far. (That's the screw of going from "program" to "product".) The present situation will only allow for small, incremental improvements. Of course, no one can make a commercial product out of it; the copyleft will guarantee that anybody who tries will go broke. The one exception is Larry -- he can make proprietary changes and keep people from copying them! Dale Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- There are three kinds of people: those that can count, and those that can't.