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The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote. Everyone knows it as Perl 6. Therefore, everyone who would write about it after this p
by cwyers 12y ago
The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Everyone knows it as Perl 6. Therefore, everyone who would write about it after this proposed name change would say "formerly known as Perl 6," so that people know what you're talking about. All the conceptual baggage remains.
(And the reason the Perl name is a boat anchor is because someone hooked a chain to it and sank it to the bottom of the ocean. Perl didn't die from natural causes, Perl was killed by neglect - neglect caused because Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary? So now OG Perl is stuck on 5.x from now until the heat death of the universe, because this project poisoned the well.)
- machinshin_ 12y ago> The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote. thanks for the deep words, Kosh
- desdiv 12y agoI apologize for being out of the loop, but who's Kosh?
- Poiesis 12y agoI don't know what the right answer is here, but I find it intriguing that this approach is in a way the opposite of what Python ended up doing with the 2/3 split.
- tomphoolery 12y agoLike many things that we love about Python, I believe it came about as a reaction to Perl. Because I'm pretty sure Perl 6 has been in development since I began learning Ruby, in 2005. That means the entire time I've been a Ruby developer, this project has been in development. I'm honestly surprised that it's being released at all.
- maxlybbert 12y ago> Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary? What are you talking about? ( http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html ). A lot of the releases in the last decade were inspired by Perl 6 features. And Moose is clearly inspired by Perl 6. I've spoken with people who believe the last Perl release was 5.8 (released in 2002). I believe this is caused by many Linux distributions still shipping old copies of Perl 5, but it's incredibly annoying.