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He probably means that he heard somewhere several years ago (before 2005, for example) that there were no implementations of Perl 6 and hasn't bothered looking
by chromatic 17y ago
He probably means that he heard somewhere several years ago (before 2005, for example) that there were no implementations of Perl 6 and hasn't bothered looking in the five years since then. It's okay. It's a common disorder.
- mbrubeck 17y agoWhen the front page of www.perl.org says "Latest Version: 5.10.1," you can't just blame other people for being confused about whether Perl 6 is released or usable. Look at http://perl.org/ http://perl.org/ and then compare it to http://python.org/ http://python.org/ or http://ruby-lang.org/ http://ruby-lang.org/ (two other languages that are going through big backward-incompatible platform transitions). Consider how someone who isn't following the development process is supposed to find out about and download Perl 6 (versus Python 3 or Ruby 1.9).
- jrockway 17y agoPerl 6 is not the next major version of Perl 5, which is what "Perl" refers to. The next major version of Perl 5 is Perl 5.12. Perl 6 is a totally different programming languages that is like Perl 5 in many ways.
- mbrubeck 17y agoAnd yet if I go to http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ I read that "Perl 6 is the next version of the Perl programming language." Read the FAQ on that page and follow the links, and try to see them from an outsider's point of view. You and I know about the relation between Perl 5 and Perl 6 and the rough status of projects like Rakudo. But for someone who hasn't been following the development, it's extremely confusing and its not their fault, its the Perl 6 community's fault.