Good afternoon,
On 9/10/08 at 10:38 PM -0400, Derek Belrose
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>I very rarely use the word vaporware, but Perl6 is one of those
>that I definitely consider as vaporware.
>
>It's so hyped, I tend to avoid anyone building it up. At this
>point, it's a completely different language...why even call it
>perl? :)
There was certainly a problem with momentum with that project.
It seems to have really been picking up recently though, which
is why I mentioned it.
>Seriously, when you make that dramatic of a change to the
>syntax of a language, it pretty much ceases to be that language.
I can't really claim to fully understand all the components that
make up Perl6, but one of the components allows using different
syntax. And of course one of those includes Perl5 syntax. If I
understand it right, a lot of the Moose project is stuff
back-ported from Perl6 (I could be wrong about that), so anyone
using Moose today is already starting to use some of the Perl6 idioms.
Charlie
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