On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Mark Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > This conversational topic comes up from time to time and it really is a > bikeshed. > > It's going to take more than a new version number to get (most) people > (re-)interested in Perl in a major way.
We discussed how to name the new perl forks, and thought that a combination of perl5 and perl6 would make most sense. perl5 compatible syntax with added but not contradicting perl6 features. A common runtime, with exchangable parts. Hence the name perl11, my project is called p2. 5+6=11 p2: 2nd perl http://perl11.org/ http://perl11.org/p2/ > That's my NSHO. > > Mark > > ________________________________ > From: B. Estrade <[email protected]> > To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:52 AM > Subject: [pm-h] Perl 7? > > It's a bike shed (symbolic and shrewd as it may be), but I like the > idea...and not just because I've mentioned this myself to anyone who'd > listen. :) > > http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html > > Brett > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
