When talking about Perl never forget to mention CPAN. Heck this library ecosystem is still great and running..
CPAN installs are the reason I personally avoid perl like the plague today.
Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
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Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#232Congrats! But shouldn't some kind of official announcement be made on perl6.org?
There will be, when a stable version is released for christmas.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#233Things that won't make it in to 6.christmas (the non-beta release): https://gist.github.com/jnthn/040f4502899d39b2cbb4
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#234You launch Perl 6 without updating the fucking home page? So Perl. So perl.
Launchdate is still Christmas. Accordingly, the official 6.0 release is also known as 6.Christmas. Right now, we're only at 6.Birthday.
According to http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/ , Perl 6 is just a specification. What changes do you see in the specification between now and Christmas?
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#235I'm really surprised this site is the source y'all chose to upvote. Not only was the second-newest article published in 2012, they also have an assortment of other questionable content[0][1]. Advertising from rotten.com and a category named "Jonny Jihad" are also professional touches. I mean, whatever floats your boat, but HN, is this really one of your go-to trusted news sources? [0] http://www.pigdog.org/in_the_pin…
Another blog reporting from the event:
"The Night Larry Wall Unveiled Perl 6"
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-...
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#236This rant made me laugh one day: http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-perlrant.html
Disclaimer: I don't know Perl and I have no opinion if this rant is deserved or not yet it's an enjoyable read.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#237This rant made me laugh one day: http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-perlrant.html Disclaimer: I don't know Perl and I have no opinion if this rant is deserved or not yet it's an enjoyable read.
He admits freely that he is ignorant about Perl, so i am unclear why you would bother to subject anyone else to such childish insults borne from nothing but fear and hate of the unknown.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#238Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#239> One of the most impressive things Larry demonstrated was the sequence operator, and Perl 6's ability to intuit sequences. say 1, 2, 4 ... 2**32 > This correctly produced a nice tidy list of just 32 values -- rather than the 4,294,967,296 you might expect. Someone with more time than me needs to find an IQ test that is based around sequence questions like this and plug them all into Perl 6. So we can find out what P…
With things like this, it makes me glad I write C++ (and that gets bashed enough!). I do not miss the days of maintaining a Perl codebase (and trying to decipher what on earth code was doing). This is insane.
Re: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
#240I may not write a bunch of Perl 6, but the planet is better for having Perl 6. That says a lot about the person who guided Perl 6 to completion, he's a gem of a guy. Thank you Larry!