[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Yuval Kogman]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 15:54:22 +0200, Roman Yakovenko wrote:

> I did not event say one reason or compared. All I wanted is to hear reasons to
> learn that new language. Take for example Microsoft, they changed Managed C++
> to CLI\C++. Do you know how much it will cost to the industry? But I
> have an article,
> from Herb Sutter that explains what has been changed and why I should
> switch to it.
> If you have some resources like this - I'd like to read it.

The difference is that this is opensource. Nobody is forcing you to
switch from perl 5 - it's there, it's portable, it's ready for you
to fix bugs if you're the only one using it 20 years from now.

While I agree that for a company to drop support of one thing in
favor of another costs lots of money to their clients, this is not
the same thing. Hell, it's not even the same ballpark. You are not
getting less. You are getting the same thing, except that people who
may have been interested in helping out perl 5 have grown tired of
it, and feel like doing something else.

-- 
 ()  Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org> 0xEBD27418  perl hacker &
 /\  kung foo master: /me groks YAML like the grasshopper: neeyah!!!!!!

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