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I'm unclear from this whether perl 6 is finished and usable. The argument that the language is finished but the compilers may not be seems odd. Is the "main" pe
by harry8 7y ago
I'm unclear from this whether perl 6 is finished and usable. The argument that the language is finished but the compilers may not be seems odd. Is the "main" perl 6 compiler finished? With a language like perl be it 5 or 6 or python 2 or 3 people will conflate the language with the implementation because the assumption will be there will be one leading implementation and other niche implementations of interest to specialists. Saying perl 6 is not finished (is it?) means it is lacking somehow in its design and/or primary implementation. So is it?
This sort of looks like a language standardisation committee argument tactic. We're not responsible for each C compiler, it should be clear which are standards compliant. Larry used to say he'd be standardised before perl would be.
- sverige 7y agoThere has been considerable discussion in the Perl 6 community that they should have named it something else besides "Perl," like maybe "Rakudo." In many ways, it's not really a descendant of Perl 5 and prior versions. It's really an entirely different language. I wish they'd stop calling it Perl already. Perl 5 is still actively maintained and developed.
- cygx 7y agoPerl6 has had two proper language releases (v6.c in Dec 2015 and v6.d in Nov 2018), and there's a compiler that implements them (namely Rakudo). The language is not 'finished' insofar that parts of the original design have yet to be realized (eg macros), and as any language that isn't dead, it continues to evolve to meet developers' needs.