Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 8:25 PM UTC

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Late for what, exactly? Do people no longer write code? Because if they do, some of them might might choose to use Perl 6 for that, and that's all the success a programming language can hope for. I see no reason why Perl 6 can't find its niche among people who prefer the Perlish over the Pythonic way to approach problems, but want a modern, consistent, cruft-free language (which Perl 5 is not).

If they wanted a modern, consistent and cruft-free language then those people most likely already moved to something better. I'm not against Perl or its evolution, but I don't see the point to learn this today when you have so many better scripting language alternatives with established community and rich libraries available.

Post by kamaal » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 8:28 PM UTC

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Modern scripting languages with... parametric polymorphism, built-in parallelism/concurrency, grammars, constraint-based multiple dispatch, etc.? Yes, it will be very important to build up a Perl 6 community and an ecosystem of libraries. That being said, if you want to talk about modern scripting languages, Perl 6 seems like a good choice. Ok, to be fair to functional programmers a lot of these things are old featur…

Modern scripting languages with... parametric polymorphism, built-in parallelism/concurrency, grammars, constraint-based multiple dispatch, etc.? Not everyone thinks that ticking off a list of feature checkboxes satisfies the most important adoption criteria.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 8:39 PM UTC

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Better in this case is purely a value judgement... The Perl language is very elegant and powerful, that's why most of the other languages were modeled on it. Perl is a language that is still ahead of its time. Also, Perl's library system, CPAN, is far more comprehensive than many languages. By the way, Python is a great language, except for all the tabbing nonsense.

>"most of the other languages were modeled on it." Having a regexp library is hardly "modeling a language on Perl". "Most" of exactly WHICH languages are you claiming were modeled on Perl? >Perl is a language that is still ahead of its time. Perl's time was 15 years ago. >"Also, Perl's library system, CPAN, is far more comprehensive than many languages." A library and a language are apples and oranges. Python's libra…

Post by RichardCA » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

perlgeek wrote: post #40

I'm a Perl 6 core developer (compiler, test suite, docs, design documents, infrastructure). Ask me anything :-)

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 8:53 PM UTC

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Programming languages aren't minivans, you can't just increment the number of features and say that the sticker price should go up.