'X-ite'ing days ahead?

Plans are brewing up. Something big lies ahead of us. X-ite is doing
really well and we have come pretty far from where we started. But all
things have a saturation point. Perhaps X-ite has hit it. Perhaps there
is a lot that can still be done with it. But as we keep exploring the
unknown seas of perl script goodies and the hazardous rock cliff shores
of Xt, we are beginning to see shorelines all around us.

It seems like a time to move to newer seas. But what we have in mind is
almost as big as a Captain Cook voyage as compared to what we have been
doing so far. Its a humongous task to say the least.

One step at a time. The first task is going to be to agree upon a good
design.

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