On the one hand were people complaining about bugs and how it was unstable and saying that nobody was going to switch, and there were some accusations that Sarathy was part of a Microsoft conspiracy to sabotage Perl. Blah blah blah. Then on the other hand were a lot of people saying that the changes were not significant enough to warrant a new version number. This prompted Tom Christiansen to post this reply . Because Sarathy would have quit in frustration over the demands put upon him, the expectation that he and he alone would rewrite and redesign all the major subsystems for everybody's pet little feeps, from threads to unicode to the codegenerators.
Work appears to be ongoing to try to salvage the working atmosphere of the group.
Best of luck, guys. PHP PHP HOW-TO . An updated version of the PHP HOW-TO has been made available. Python Linux Journal Python Supplement . The May issue of the Linux Journal apparently contains a Python supplement , with articles ranging from the silly to the strictly serious.