The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).

Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read even half. …

If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of ci…

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.