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Re:So You Want To Be A Ruby Dev by gamache on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @08:43PM (#1593426)
Then there are the platforms that just stop shipping new versions for a decade or so.

Perl's mistake was not releasing another Camel Book for a decade. The Perl 5.x language and libraries have done just fine.

Re:So You Want To Be A Ruby Dev by chromatic on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @02:25AM (#1594007)
Don't mistake a publisher's problem for a language's problem.
Re:So You Want To Be A Ruby Dev by gamache on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:03AM (#1594541)
I understand that, but it took the Perl community years to step up and fill the gap. (Thanks BTW.)

The publisher's problem became the community's problem, which in turn became the language's problem.