=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2002/01/27 20:22:52 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
for Perl's milestone releases.
In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters)
-are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed
-to producing better software for free than you could hope to
-purchase for money. You may snoop on pending developments via
-nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ and the Deja archive at
-http://www.deja.com/ using the perl.porters-gw newsgroup, or you can
-subscribe to the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request@perl.org
-a subscription request.
+are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
+producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
+money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at
+http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
+and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/
+or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or
+its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters ,
+or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq,
+or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
+perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request
+(an empty message with no subject is fine).
While the GNU project includes Perl in its distributions, there's no
such thing as "GNU Perl". Perl is not produced nor maintained by the
At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall
announced Perl6 development would begin in earnest. Perl6 was an oft
used term for Chip Salzenberg's project to rewrite Perl in C++ named
-Topaz. However, Topaz should not be confused with the nisus to rewrite
-Perl while keeping the lessons learned from other software, as well as
-Perl5, in mind.
+Topaz. However, Topaz provided valuable insights to the next version
+of Perl and its implementation, but was ultimately abandoned.
-If you have a desire to help in the crusade to make Perl a better place
-then peruse the Perl6 developers page at http://www.perl.org/perl6/ and
-get involved.
+If you want to learn more about Perl6, or have a desire to help in
+the crusade to make Perl a better place then peruse the Perl6 developers
+page at http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ and get involved.
-The first alpha release is expected by Summer 2001.
+Perl6 is not scheduled for release yet, and Perl5 will still be supported
+for quite awhile after its release. Do not wait for Perl6 to do whatever
+you need to do.
"We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing."
--Larry Wall
These are the "just another perl hacker" signatures that some people
sign their postings with. Randal Schwartz made these famous. About
100 of the earlier ones are available from
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh .
+http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh .
=head2 Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
Over a hundred quips by Larry, from postings of his or source code,
-can be found at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
+can be found at http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
=head2 How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan
Torkington. All rights reserved.
-When included as an integrated part of the Standard Distribution
-of Perl or of its documentation (printed or otherwise), this works is
-covered under Perl's Artistic Licence. For separate distributions of
-all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
+This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are in the public
domain. You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any
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