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> The perl community have been searching for the best way to overcome the perception that "perl is dead" Release. Perl. 6.
by m0nty 16y ago
> The perl community have been searching for the best way to overcome the perception that "perl is dead"
Release. Perl. 6.
- adam-_- 16y agoIt's a shame it got called Perl 6... Perl 5 has been cracking along and is by no means stale: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/ms...
- larard 16y ago"perl6 is another language in the same family as perl5. It is not meant to replace or succeed perl5. They are incompatible yet complementary." The success of perl 5 is in no way determined by perl 6. Perl 5 development continues unabated. As jrockway says here, "Think of Perl 6 as Perl 5's Clojure". Though my personal opinion is that the naming, and the confusion it creates, sucks and makes it really easy to think that perl (5) is dead because perl (6) hasn't been released yet.
- chromatic 16y agoSince the announcement of Perl 6 10 years ago, there have been fifteen stable releases of Perl 5. There have been 31 releases of Rakudo Perl 6. Pugs had half a dozen. What more do you want?
- elblanco 16y agoI want to be able to go to http://www.perl.org/get.html http://www.perl.org/get.html and see two links: download Perl 5.10.xxx, download Perl 6.x.
- draegtun 16y agoThat would be a very good idea indeed. In meantime for Rakudo Perl6 the direct link is: http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo
- mishmash 16y agoSome Perl 6 eBooks.
- tene 16y agohttp://github.com/perl6/book/ http://github.com/perl6/book/
- mishmash 16y agoThanks, I have this and it's great, but it'd be a bit nicer to have something a little more fleshed-out. Looking forward to Learning Perl 6 when it starts to come along.
- chromatic 16y agoI'm talking to Pete Krawczyk about "Perl 6 for Perl 5 Programmers". Is that more what you have in mind?