X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq1.pod;h=ec61e8b61e746831151715cf03de7520c5360763;hb=e9e021e644582e6ca1e9f6b4c1f1a8a7c7e2a58d;hp=bbdad0f3a5024267772145aa11954cf5d383574c;hpb=8dae84129f0c598a816cd2005915355714453456;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index bbdad0f..ec61e8b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ 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 -news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ and the Deja archive at +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. @@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ See L for a history of Perl revisions. =head2 What is perl6? -At the Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (also known as -the Fourth Perl Conference, or TPC4) held in Monterey, California in -July 2000, Larry Wall announced that Perl6 development would begin in earnest. -Perl6 was an oft used term for Chip Salzenberg's project Topaz, -but that should not be confused with the new effort to rewrite Perl while -keeping the lessons learned from Perl5 and other software in mind. +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. 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