Re: A place to discuss Perl language design questions

[email protected] (Martijn Lievaart via perl5-porters) Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:05:29 +0100
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Op 19-03-2026 om 23:40 schreef Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters:
> * Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <[email protected]> [2026-03-19 16:10]:
>> I am looking for a place to hold discussions about various language
>> design issues I keep thinking up, relating to all sorts of things.
>>
>> I'm 99% sure that this mailing list isn't really the place. Mostly
>> because most of the people who would have interesting ideas and
>> use-cases and actual "I run real Perl code in production systems"
>> experience are not here.
> Once upon a time, this list *would* have been that place, and in fact
> *was* that place. It no longer looks anything like that because so many
> people left – and I think not because another venue drew them away, but
> because many of them moved on from Perl altogether. If so then there is
> no getting that level of discussion back, irrespective of venue.
>

Still, I would say this list is still the best place.


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