Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[Peter Corlett]

On 11 Oct 2006, at 20:34, Matt S Trout wrote:
[...]
> "We have been considering Perl as one of the platforms to be  
> admitted to the contest. So far, we have decided against it because  
> we believe that too few professionals use it professionally for us  
> to hope to get enough requests for admittance for the Perl platform.

I'm sure that having Zend ("The php Company") as their sole sponsor,  
indeed a "top" sponsor, has had absolutely *no* bearing on the  
decision to exclude Perl.