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Is it officially appropriate to talk about Perl in the past tense?
by ianai 7y ago
Is it officially appropriate to talk about Perl in the past tense?
- JasonFruit 7y agoNo, just about people caring about it. (Okay, that was flip, but Perl has really lost its niche, and not many people are very excited about it now.)
- ryl00 7y agoNah, plenty of people still care about it (I should know, I'm one of them!). And with regular expressions front-and-center in perl, I still find it wonderful for text munging.
- JasonFruit 7y agoMaybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
- gpvos 7y agoIs Parrot dead (Monty Python pun intended)? I've lost track of the different Perl 6 implementations and their subparts.
- lizmat 7y agoYes, the Parrot project is in deep, very deep hibernation.
- lizmat 7y agoThen you should maybe have a look at MoarVM (https://moarvm.org https://moarvm.org). It is now the main backend for Raku (née Perl 6) and is all that Parrot was intended to be, and then some. If you want to get into it, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/edumentab/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course https://github.com/edumentab/rakudo-and-nqp-internals-course (course materials that implemented a Ruby and a PHP on MoarVM).
- JasonFruit 7y agoThat looks extremely promising!
- lmkg 7y agoI think technically yes, because the present tense should be referring to Raku instead.
- ansible 7y agoPerl 5 will continue to be the official "Perl". Development on that continues, and it has an extensive community, though not nearly as large as Python, which was once its peer. What was Perl 6 will, moving forward, be known as "Raku".
- gbacon 7y agoNo. Perl and Raku are different, albeit related, languages.
- pierrec 7y agoI wouldn't read too much into it. "X is dead" is such a common sentiment on HN it's somewhere between funny and tiresome.