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I would argue that Rakudo used to implement a Perl 6 dialect, and that it now implements a Raku dialect. Perl 6 and Raku share just about everything, except th
by lizmat 7y ago
I would argue that Rakudo used to implement a Perl 6 dialect, and that it now implements a Raku dialect. Perl 6 and Raku share just about everything, except the name :-)
- eesmith 7y agoC, Objective C, C++, Java, and C# are part of a family of related languages. These may be referred to as "C-like" languages. The C-like languages, plus Pascal, Ada, and others, are part of the Algol superfamily of languages. "Family" and "superfamily" aren't well defined, in the way that it is for biological taxonomy, but I think it's intuitively clear enough for this discussion. The Python family includes the various CPython language implementations, plus JPython/Jython, Iron Python, and PyPy, as well as wider-away dialects like Cython. At some point it's part of the Python superfamily. What's the name for the family of languages which includes Perl 6 and Raku? I think "Perl-like" includes Perl 4, 5, and 6, Raku, as well as (further away), Ruby. I think Perl 6 and Raku are parts of the Perl 6 family, following the usual tradition of naming language families after the first instance in that family. (It isn't always that, see https://wiki.c2.com/?WirthLanguages https://wiki.c2.com/?WirthLanguages ). What would you suggest as the family name for Raku and Perl 6 which excludes the more distant members of the family, like Perl 5? Delphi is an Object Pascal, for example.
- lizmat 7y agoWall-inspired Languages?