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And it only took a decade of promises. On to Perl 7.
by jcoffland 11y ago
And it only took a decade of promises. On to Perl 7.
- SwellJoe 11y agoPerl 6 was actually more than a decade coming. It was first conceived around 2000. And, Perl 6 is likely to last as long as Perl 5, which is to say, 20+ years (so far, for Perl 5, but it's got at least another 5-10 years in it as a maintenance language for millions of lines of code in the wild). Though, since Perl 5 maintained compatibility with Perl 4 and earlier, and continues to do so today (mostly), one could probably categorize all of Perl <6 as one entity, and Perl 6 as another language. And, while we're speaking of promises, I believe that was a feature that came relatively late in the development of Perl 6, but it is a nice implementation from what I can tell. Here's the docs: http://doc.perl6.org/type/Promise http://doc.perl6.org/type/Promise