Well, Parrot builds on my new install of Cygwin. So I was sort of
looking for stuff to do.
The roadmap says that about a third of the opcodes don't have associated
tests. Would that be a nice, easy start for chipping in?
More significantly, the roadmap talks about rearchitecting the string
inte
* What's the counter word for computer languages, anyway?
-mai? As an abstraction from paper printouts?
From: Brent Laabs [mailto:bsla...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:51 PM
To: Aaron Sherman
Cc: yary ; Perl6
Subject: Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?
CAUTIO
I think a name change is too radical. And yet.
I think Steve has a point, though I don’t know what to do about it. The
developers in my little corner of the world may not be up on the
new-language-of-the-week, but even they see Perl as a has-been, write-only
language, so when their brain matc
Thank you for your insightful comment Vijay. You’re right.
Perl6’s evangelists will typically be current Perlers who are running up
against Perl5’s limitations.
So I think you’ve circumscribed the issue: what is Perl6 for?
* Perl6 could be “better than Go” for microservices – IF it’s easy