3 ms·
I think the author is way to generous to the PERL community and the drama of PERL 6. I think the toxicity that eventually led to Larry Wall bowing out is being
by mybrid 6y ago
I think the author is way to generous to the PERL community and the drama of PERL 6. I think the toxicity that eventually led to Larry Wall bowing out is being replicated in Python and Guido leaving. I left PERL for Python in the mid-2000s because it was clear with the Parrot engine and other misguided notions by the PERL bullies that the PERL leadership was bent. Now that Guido is out it will be interesting to see how long Python retains its perch. I think the demise of PERL would have been vastly different if Larry Wall hadn't been forced out.
- avar 6y agoLarry Wall wasn't forced out of Perl development. He decided on his own to stop actively contributing to Perl 5 sometime before 2000 and to hand it off to others. The whole Perl 6 v.s. Perl 5 branding was a source of friction, but as far as I know the rebranding of Perl 6 to Raku wasn't in any way because Larry was forced to do something. The two communities eventually decided that sharing the same name for two completely different languages didn't make any sense.
- lelanthran 6y agoThat may have played a part, but I feel that a larger problem was the line-noise-like syntax. Right now C++ and Rust appear to be competing to be the next Perl WRT hieroglyphics in code. The smug and pointless answer to the complaint that the code looks like line-noise is usually "whichever language you use, you have to learn the symbols anyway".