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I really think such a move would be overly confusing * Perl 7 coming out before Perl 6 * Perl 7 being compatible with 5 * Perl 6 being compatible with neithe
by cjh_ 14y ago
I really think such a move would be overly confusing
* Perl 7 coming out before Perl 6
* Perl 7 being compatible with 5
* Perl 6 being compatible with neither 5 nor 7
- hagios 14y agoI think that it could be explained away in that Perl 6 was an experiment with enough major changes that it never took hold, and that Perl 7 was moving the language forward rather than waiting for Perl 6 to gain widespread adoption.
- cjh_ 14y agoHowever once (if) Perl 6 does come out and take hold I still think this would cause confusion. Explaining it is also a solution to the 'problem' they are trying to solve here, namely that 5.x seems 'dead' and 6.x seems 'alive'. A little explanation that the 5.x branch will continue to exist seems a lot easier (and less confusing).
- pyre 14y agoWhat really needs to happen is that Perl 6 needs to be scrapped or renamed to something else. At this point there are so many major changes, that it can't really be called Perl anymore.
- viraptor 14y agoBut this kind of version skip has some precedents. At least the Winamp "we messed up 3 so badly that we're going to skip a version" 5, comes to my mind.
- fosap 14y agoIs perl 6 messed up? I haven't had the time to look at it, but it doesn't seem to.
- stevekinney 14y agoI'll begin with the standard disclaimer that I'm a bit out of touch with the Perl community (but that won't stop me from commenting). Technically, this has been done before with the abandonment of ECMAScript 4 in favor of skipping from ECMAScript 3 to ECMAScript 5.
- pjungwir 14y agoIf they go with Perl 7, what will they call Perl 6 when it needs a new version?
- wnoise 14y agoPerl 8, of course.
- DASD 14y agoIt certainly can't be any worse than all the name changes Delphi has gone through over the years.
- bitcartel 14y agoAnybody have any recent experience with Delphi? "With Delphi XE3... you write an application once and compile natively for both Windows and Mac – including 64-bit Windows and Windows 8, Mac OS X Mountain Lion and earlier Windows and Mac versions from a single codebase. " http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/mac-osx-development http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/mac-osx-developme...