Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread B. Estrade
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:59:44AM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: I see things differently. I think that the question is Perl 6 production ready? is a meaningful and fairly important question. Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment? The question has as much (or

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread Wendell Hatcher
LOL, I will take that one. :) I looked at all of those. My company uses Ruby so that is what i am going to work with at this time. I was leaning towards scala as well but heard good things about closure and it may fit my needs since i am looking for something that uses the java vm. - On Nov

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread Raphael Descamps
Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2011, 17:21 +0100 schrieb Daniel Carrera: On 11/23/2011 02:58 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the like. But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity. Wanting perl6 to be finished will not

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2011-24-11 at 12:43 +0100, Raphael Descamps wrote: I think that it's a common misconception: a time-frame of 10-20 years for developing a new programming language is absolutely normal. It's also worth looking at C++. This is a good reference: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/dne.html

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread David Green
Richard Hainsworth wrote: Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the like. But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity. Indeed. To quote Alan Perlis, Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread B. Estrade
Well said. Also, the OP shouldn't confuse Perl 5 (the interpreter-defined language) with Perl 6 (a language definition for interpreters/compilers). The latter benefits from the fact that Perl 5 is whatever perl says it is - for better or worse. So, asking if Perl 6 is production ready is like

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
I see things differently. I think that the question is Perl 6 production ready? is a meaningful and fairly important question. Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment? The question has as much (or more) to do with implementations than the spec, but that doesn't make

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Is Perl 6 production ready? No. Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment? No, except for some fairly trivial and meaningless definitions of production environment. I am not aware of anyone in this list or on IRC #perl6 who has made any claim to the contrary. If you

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread yary
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Wendell wendell_hatc...@comcast.net wrote: ... How do I remove myself from this user mail listing ... It's in the headers- List-Unsubscribe: mailto:perl6-users-unsubscr...@perl.org send an email to that address from the account you've subscribed with

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Thanks. On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:40 AM, yary wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Wendell wendell_hatc...@comcast.net wrote: ... How do I remove myself from this user mail listing ... It's in the headers- List-Unsubscribe: mailto:perl6-users-unsubscr...@perl.org send an email to that

Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-22 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Are there people using Perl 6 in production at this time? Is Perl 6 production ready? -Dell

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-22 Thread Tadeusz Sośnierz
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 16:59:52 Wendell Hatcher wrote: Are there people using Perl 6 in production at this time? Is Perl 6 production ready? http://ttjjss.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/what-is-production-ready/ Kind regards, -- Tadeusz Sośnierz

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-22 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Thanks, so it isnt production ready like a release which would be an official release of a new version of perl 5? I have the feeling after well over 5 years this will never happened. I hope Perl 6 doesnt get seen as a novelty or toy and people simply never use it if this hasnt already happened.