Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[chromatic]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 12:53, Peter Corlett wrote:

> 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.

Hey, they believed it was possible to use PHP 4 "professionally".

-- c