Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

[email protected] (John Adams) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:48:29 -0400 (EDT)

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>From: Andy Lester <[email protected]>

>Plurality is the nature of open source, and it's an additive process,  
>not a subtractive one.  Template Toolkit doesn't take away from  
>Mason.  Devel::*Prof don't take away from Devel::DProf.  Perlbuzz  
>doesn't take away from use.perl.org.  Perl 6 doesn't take away from  
>Perl 5.  Perl didn't take away from awk and shell.  vim doesn't take  
>away from emacs.

I think this is a bit oversimplified. These things can and do take resources from each other, whether we like to admit it or not. That taking of resources can leave a better final state than when we began, but at a cost.