Re: ISO: History of this effort?

Larry W. Virden writes:
 > Anyone on this list want to share some of the info from perl5-porters,
 > private emails, etc.?

A copy of my list from p5p attached.  Some personal bias evident.

 > I just went over the 6 msgs on the list itself and see that none of the
 > 'background' appears to ever have made it to the list itself <grin>.

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-09/thrd5.html

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