On 01/01/2011 10:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > It would be nice to figure out what is the percentage of people who > don't yet look at Perl 6 because there was not official Perl 6.0 > release > or in more general what are the blocking issues for them. > I just would like to make sure that by asking the question we don't > strengthen the belief that there ever will be an official Perl 6.0 > release. > Of course that might be part of *my* misunderstanding that I think > there won't be such thing. I don't have trouble if the questions > and the possible answers already provide some form of education > pointing people to the possible real answers. > > So for example: > > I'll start learning Perl 6 (select one or more that fits your opinion) > *) when Larry Wall declares that Perl 6.0 is ready > *) after Rakudo 1.0 is released
Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1.0. So I'd change that to "after a production release of a Perl 6 compiler" > *) when the default running perl -v in my Linux distribution will say > it is version 6.0 or later > *) After the Learning Perl 6th edition will be published > *) After DBI and DBD::Mysql is ported > *) never > *) I have already started to learn > Other: > > > What do you think? Maybe add *) when it's about as fast as perl5 I think it's an interesting question. Cheers, Moritz
