The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors. :-)
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Usenet article <8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> (1990)Larry Wall
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Larry Wall
To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.
Vaclav Havel
...Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course.
Larry Wall
This is your brain. This is Perl. This is your brain on Perl. Any questions?
Erik Naggum
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