On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> This being Slashdot, of course the discussion had to revolve around about > the status of Perl 6, why Perl is dead anyway, and how superior programming > language X is to Perl. > Perl 6's biggest problem is that it's called Perl 6. It's not Perl and It should have been called something else. That it's not is a huge problem. I think Perl 5's next major version number really needs to be Perl 7. Maybe call Perl 6 something like purlsicks or something of the like. The perl "utility" evolved directly as a result of the Unix ecosystem upon which it was born; I don't even like calling Perl a language (it's a utility that has a very rich scripting interface), and pretending that it is a formalizable language (which is what Perl 6 attempts) is a big reason why people think it's a failed project. Perl has a lot of problems, most of it legacy baggage, but there is nothing else out there that gives Unix a better scripting interface. No other "language" is as tightly tied to Unix as Perl; any other that you mention is meant to be a language not a tool like Perl. It's easy for the likes of Python and Ruby, for example, to ignore their host OS's principles so thoroughly - not Perl for better or worse (I say better). At the very least, it's been a rich source of ideas for Perl 5 and I do hope it develops into its own feature and stable platform. It will never replace Perl 5, though. > > Typical Slashdot comment fare. But it's nice someone submitted the story > and it was posted. > > Isn't Slashdot a Perl app? :) Brett > Mark > > ------------------------------ > *From:* chris blanc <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, May 21, 2012 4:25 PM > *Subject:* [pm-h] Perl 5.16.0 Released > > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/2020223/perl-5160-released > > Slashdot asks: "With Perl on an annual release schedule, and projects > like Mojolicious, Dancer, perlbrew, Plack, and Moose continuing to > gain in popularity, are we in the middle of a Perl renaissance?" > > -- > http://www.dionysius.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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