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I've heard a lot of good things about Moose, the Modern Perl effort & so on. Enough that I periodically think about jumping back in the Perl waters. However, I
by wdr1 12y ago
I've heard a lot of good things about Moose, the Modern Perl effort & so on. Enough that I periodically think about jumping back in the Perl waters. However, I always wonder if it's worth it, because Perl 6 is always "not far from release", so I figure I'll wait to check things out again.
Until the Perl community resolves the issues with Perl 6, the waters are too murky for a lot of otherwise would-be JAPHs.
- friedo 12y agoPerl5 and Perl6 are separate languages. Best thing is just to pretend that Perl6 doesn't exist. God knows everybody else does.
- muraiki 12y agoDon't think of Perl 5 and Perl 6 as being like the Python 2 vs Python 3 situation. Perhaps a better comparison would be that of C vs C++: the latter is inspired by the former, but not everyone who uses the former has any interest (or needs to have any interest) in the latter. Perl 6 is worth paying attention to, but not as "something which will make Perl 5 obsolete". Don't let the status of the various P6 distributions stop you from using P5 to make cool stuff today. :)
- moltar 12y agoThose are separate languages, they shouldn't even have named "Perl 6" with "Perl" in it.
- username223 12y ago> Moose, the Modern Perl effort & so on. That's mostly just a marketing ploy by a few people trying to make money off books and speaking fees. Ignore it.