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Clarification: Decided by the Perl 6 devs who want to keep the name and don't seem to care about the damage that decision does to Perl 5
by cthor 9y ago
Clarification: Decided by the Perl 6 devs who want to keep the name and don't seem to care about the damage that decision does to Perl 5
- petre 9y agoOne of the discussion was on the Perl blogs[1]. Most of the devs there are Perl 5 devs and they also decided against the name change. Perl 6 is the next iteration of Perl that has been redesigned from the ground up. Why should it bare a different name? Yes, the redesign took more than a decade and it's incompatible with Perl 5, but so is Python 3.6 compared to 2.7, albeit to a lesser extent. Even Perl 5.26 has changed a lot since 5.6. In fact the least common denominator is 5.10.1. Using older versions is discouraged since they're largely unsupported by the majority of CPAN modules. 1. http://blogs.perl.org http://blogs.perl.org
- cthor 9y agoThe most recent discussion I saw on this subject[1] makes it very clear that there isn't a consensus. If there is, it's in the "Perl 6 should rename" direction. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter_to_the_perl_community/ https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter...
- vorg 9y ago> Yes, the redesign took more than a decade Quite true! In fact, the redesign took more than a decade and a half (July 2000 to Dec 2015). A record worth breaking!
- virtualsue 9y agoIt was a decision made by Larry Wall alone.Since it’s his language, he’s allowed to do that.