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author | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2011-09-26 17:12:32 +0200 |
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committer | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2011-09-26 17:39:28 +0200 |
commit | 21677d22b1208cd04008324347951f40e5e34018 (patch) | |
tree | 9d8cb94a78ca3756ae7a5d74fbc5b30591430f7d /Porting/epigraphs.pod | |
parent | ae54198b4ad53ac786020c6d655ecac12a446afe (diff) | |
download | perl-21677d22b1208cd04008324347951f40e5e34018.tar.gz |
Add the 5.14.2 epigraph
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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index 78b0e20427..5d898b96cb 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -17,6 +17,24 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.14.2 - L<< Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.d/msg/5d17fa68c250b9b2 >> + +L<Announced on 2011-09-26 by Florian +Ragwitz|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/09/msg177618.html> + + +It's not so much that people don't value the programs after they have them--they +do value them. But they're not the sort of thing that would ever catch on if +they had to overcome the marketing barrier. (I don't yet know if perl will +catch on at all--I'm worried enough about it that I specifically included an +awk-to-perl translator just to help it catch on.) Maybe it's all just an +inferiority complex. Or maybe I don't like to be mercenary. + +So I guess I'd say that the reason some software comes free is that the +mechanism for selling it is missing, either from the work environment, or from +the heart of the programmer. + + =head2 v5.15.3 - Oscar Wilde, All Art is Quite Useless L<Announced on 2011-09-20 by Stevan |