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When will perl6 become the standard perl?
by niggler 14y ago
When will perl6 become the standard perl?
- chimeracoder 14y agoPerl 6 is a different language from Perl 5, and both are being developed actively. Perl 5 was at version 15, last I checked. Python 2 is not being developed actively, aside from security updates, so it is permanently frozen at 2.7, with the intent of removing support entirely eventually (though not for a while). It's not really a like comparison to compare the two.
- lmm 14y ago>Perl 6 is a different language from Perl 5, and both are being developed actively. Perl 5 was at version 15, last I checked. It wasn't always that way, however much certain luminaries try to retcon. Perl6 was originally intended to be, well, the next version of perl; it was only after the community's rejection that the decision to continue perl5 happened. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the same thing could happen to python (though I certainly hope not, and stories like this suggest we're reaching the tipping point).
- chromatic 14y agoit was only after the community's rejection that the decision to continue perl5 happened. The lack of any usable Perl 6 implementation by the time of Perl 5.12 did more to promote the continuation of Perl 5 as its own project than any specific rejection of Perl 6. When the plan was for Perl 6 to replace Perl 5, the idea that Perl 5.12 would migrate to Parrot as a VM so that Perl 5 and Perl 6 code could run in the same process.
- Flimm 14y agoFrom what I've seen, the difference between Perl 5 and 6 is much greater than the difference between Python 2 and 3. For this reason, I have very little hope for Perl 6.