On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:35 PM, J. Shirley <[email protected]> wrote: > > They're both sharing work, and Perl 5 is improving from many angles.
Something I've been fond of saying lately, especially to those outside this community, is that Perl6 is the skunkworks lab for Perl. (AKA "Perl5", but, practically: Perl.) The Perl6 engineers keep inventing crazy things, and some are so crazy that they're crazy-awesome; these are the ones that get adopted into Perl, whether as core features or community-adopted modules like Moose and Class::MOP. I've long since stopped thinking of Perl6 as a new programming language that I should wait for; its name, rather, is merely an artifact of its origins. It has, in the years since its inception, settled into the role of a test lab and proving grounds for creative new features for my favorite programming language, and that is a beautiful thing. > This thread has sure gone crazy... It's ending up in a more interesting place than it started, at least. -- Jason McIntosh http://jmac.org • [email protected] • @JmacDotOrg _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
