The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
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The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
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#3"I count 33 synoptic documents at perlcabal.org. Synopses 2 through 6 tend to be fairly stable, although changes still occur. The remainder of the synopses are still drafts for the most part, awaiting more feedback from implementations and language use."
This is why when people like chromatic invariably comment in a "still waiting for perl 6 thread" that "you can write perl 6 now!!11!" I roll my eyes. (Quietly. So they'll go away.)
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#4"I count 33 synoptic documents at perlcabal.org. Synopses 2 through 6 tend to be fairly stable, although changes still occur. The remainder of the synopses are still drafts for the most part, awaiting more feedback from implementations and language use." This is why when people like chromatic invariably comment in a "still waiting for perl 6 thread" that "you can write perl 6 now!!11!" I roll my eyes. (Quietly. So th…
That's not what I call "quietly", fwiw.
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#510 years is also about how long ago I abandoned Perl
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#6"I count 33 synoptic documents at perlcabal.org. Synopses 2 through 6 tend to be fairly stable, although changes still occur. The remainder of the synopses are still drafts for the most part, awaiting more feedback from implementations and language use." This is why when people like chromatic invariably comment in a "still waiting for perl 6 thread" that "you can write perl 6 now!!11!" I roll my eyes. (Quietly. So th…
I'm not sure how much Perl 6 chromatic writes on a daily basis (I'm mostly only familiar with his work on his book and the Perl 6 book and his magical ability to constantly find another 2-6% performance improvement for Parrot), but there are quite a few people writing Perl 6 already.
Obviously there are people working on Rakudo and other Perl 6 implementations that spend their time writing Perl 6. But there's also people writing wikis, NES emulators, testing tools, build systems, and many other things in Perl 6. When people like chromatic say that you can write Perl 6 now, they aren't speaking based on hypotheticals or beliefs; they're speaking from experience. And, in my personal opinion, despite the NYI status of some things, bugs in the implementations of other things, and slow performance, writing code for Perl 6 is an amazing and wonderful experience. No, I wouldn't rewrite mission-critical systems on which people's lives depend in Perl 6 yet. Yes, I might write systems on which my life and future depend in Perl 6 right now. I definitely would and do write my side projects and one-off scripts in Perl 6 right now.
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#7There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the perl camp I find that I know a lot more about programming in other cultures. And now that the community is just about done, I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability.
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#810 years is also about how long ago I abandoned Perl
Too bad, it got much better in the meanwhile (particularly in the last few years).
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#9There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the perl camp I find that I know a lot more about programming in other cultures. And now that the community is just about done, I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability.
One post like yours, sir, makes it worth trawling through a hundred posts by churlish detractors. Thank you.
Re: The Perl 6 project 10 years old today
#10One promising thing about Perl 6 was the way it tried to bring parsers to everyday programming the way Perl popularized regular expressions. I'm sad the language seems to have stalled for that reason.