Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
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Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
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Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#2Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6 and no comments on hacker news an hour later.
That's the new headline that sums up Perl: an anachronistic programming language that may never recover from the perl 5->6 decade long 'freeze'. Also the language is crazy to write substantial programs in!
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#3Some of the code examples suffer from a failure to escape angle brackets...
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#4I honestly did not expect to see the day Perl 6 gets finished. This must have been one of the most difficult - if not the most difficult - births in the history of programming languages.
At work, I have been using Perl 5 increasingly often over the past two years, mainly because handling unicode in Python 2 is not a lot of fun (and I still haven't come around to learning Python 3), and I have rediscovered why I used to like it so much.
So far I have not looked into Perl 6 seriously, because I did not see the point to do so before it was finished. Guess I know now what I'll be doing this Christmas. :)
Also, you gotta love Larry for quotes like this one: "This is why we say all languages are religious dialects of Perl 6..."
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#5Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6 and no comments on hacker news an hour later. That's the new headline that sums up Perl: an anachronistic programming language that may never recover from the perl 5->6 decade long 'freeze'. Also the language is crazy to write substantial programs in!
Yeah, the freeze killed momentum and left the community to wither. Python's transition was much better but is still not quite complete, and consumed a lot of time and effort.
Making a backwards-incompatible change to a programming language == making and launching a new language, with all its difficulties.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#6Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6 and no comments on hacker news an hour later. That's the new headline that sums up Perl: an anachronistic programming language that may never recover from the perl 5->6 decade long 'freeze'. Also the language is crazy to write substantial programs in!
> Also the language is crazy to write substantial programs in!
I would not want to write anything big in Perl 5. But for small-ish scripts (say, less than a thousand lines) it is pretty hard to beat.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#7Congratulations Larry and the Perl 6 community!
From what little I've played around with the language in the past, I really like it, and I'm glad the community can put the "still in development" talking point behind it.
Also, one of my favorite things about Perl 6 is that the Rakudo interpreter prints some of the nicest error messages I've ever seen. It actually offers suggested solutions, and it points out Perl 5->6 migration gotchas.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#8Seems too little too late. Is Perl still relevant in 2015? What would you build in Perl today that you wouldn't build in another language instead?
I used to be a big fan of Perl but it seems to have fallen behind the times, I doubt Perl 6 is enough to catch up.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#9Junctions and autothreading seem to be importing the core of APL/J: http://doc.perl6.org/type/Junction
(I'm randomly scanning http://faq.perl6.org)
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#10Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6 and no comments on hacker news an hour later. That's the new headline that sums up Perl: an anachronistic programming language that may never recover from the perl 5->6 decade long 'freeze'. Also the language is crazy to write substantial programs in!
Don't worry, within 24 hours there will be hundreds of comments all explaining how Perl 6 is of no interest to anyone.