As this is a frequent answer I encounter when having a look at Perl 6, maybe it's worth having a look at it's message:
There will be no Perl 6. There will be no Perl 6 by definition, because Perl 6 is only a specification. You cannot program a specification. Let's call this statement "specimplexpl". A pessimist, or simply some random guy looking for a nice, modern programming language will read the following: Stop waiting for it. Or asking for it, as you will only get specimplexpl + (hopefully) the RSS feed with the latest Rakudo* releases. Learn something useful you could actually use to make a living nowadays, e.g. C# .NET or Java (the latter if you are in science / public sector). Why, why do we have to fail this way in terms of marketing? Why do we pray the specimplexpl on the Rakudo* download page at the begining? Why do we pray the specimplexpl when someone asks for a Perl 6 implementation (we did get his intention, as it can be seen with the other answers). Perl 6 is so cool. You put so much effort into Perl 6. It's like an offense to all this hard work when telling someone that "there isn't a Perl 6.x as such". Would it have harmed the holy spec if more people posted a blog post titled "Perl 6 is out" or "Perl 6 X-Mas release" (like this one: http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2015/12/perl-6-lives.html)? The specimplexpl can still be done in the body part. Or as a foot note, if someone will actually mention that the download link will yield a rakduso.msi file and nor a Perl-6.msi file. The Perl6 home page is a nicder example of how it can be done the right way - it has a "Download Rakudo Perl 6" button. But there however, we fail on the final meters. The latest download is Rakudo Star 2015.09 <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2015.09-x86_64%20%28JIT%29.msi>, I didn't find 2015.12 here: http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/ (or a file named Perl-6-xmas-release.msi, as some kind of fun or an xmas present). There was so much magic about this' years Christmas, as Perl 6 has come out - somehow. And we don't use it. Instead, we still pray: specimplexpl. Everywhere. What do we expect that new interested people are looking for when searching for Perl 6? What do they search for, when they ask about a Perl 6 release? What do they want to download? A spec? A specimplexpl? Or, maybe the successor of Perl 5? In the same relation as Python 2 and Python 3? PHP 4 and PHP 5? SBCL 1.2.7 and SBCL 1.2.14? COBOL-68 and COBOL-2002? TLDR; We fail at Perl 6 marketing. If you are looking for the Perl 6 Christmas release then visit http://perl6.org/downloads/ and try you luck. 2015-12-28 19:41 GMT+01:00 Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com>: > There isn't a 6.0.0 as such. > > Perl 6's language specification, versioned 6.c (aka Christmas) was > released; at the same time, the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, version > 2015.12 was released, which is the most up to date implementation of > this specification. > > The specification is intended to have only minor changes in 6.c going > forward; the next version (6.d, no specific release date planned) will > likely have more involved changes. In the meantime, an implementation > that supports 6.c is free to change internals or parts of the language > that were not explicitly part of the 6.c specification. > > Future versions of the compiler may have support for multiple versions > of the specification that can be handled with a lexical "use v6.c" to > get old behavior once the spec changes. > > Finally, Rakudo * is a distribution that includes the compiler and > multiple modules; Look for this bundled release of the 2015.12 Rakudo > in the next few days. > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:33 PM, webmind <webm...@puscii.nl> wrote: > > Hiya, > > > > I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I know > > wonder if this is the 6.0.0 release or when this will be? > > > > Thanks > > > > web > > > > -- > > GPG Key: https://u2m.nl/data/webmind.asc > > GPG Fingerprint: 0506976E 234653B4 A628EC33 E23D16EE FCF154AE > > XMPP webm...@puscii.nl: D79970A8 7EC43E29 186D86BA 590F20F6 4C7930B8 > > XMPP webm...@laglab.org: 11E91112 091881F7 53EF6108 63C48543 C74D035C > > u2m.nl (exp: 08/04/2016) SHA256: > > > C2:40:67:22:25:52:29:AF:DF:50:4E:2A:6B:32:6D:BC:5B:1E:CA:7D:52:3B:4C:4A:21:5D:C8:E5:AE:7D:1A:09 > > Puscii (exp: 04/03/2016) SHA256: > > > F9:C7:B1:B7:90:6B:17:BF:84:93:93:7C:0F:B4:FD:BE:E3:C0:71:9D:83:01:ED:3A:96:FE:FC:82:9D:30:51:C9 > > > > > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda >
