Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
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Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#2Good on them, really hope they make the release.
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#315 years late...
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#4As I said over on perl.org:
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I have been keenly looking forward to this for a long, long time.
I think there's a good chance that Perl6 will not only become 'relevant in the large', once again, but also, once again, be a driving force in the overall improvement of our industry.
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#5In hexadecimal?
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#615 years late...
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).
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#7If you want to have an idea of what makes Perl 6 compelling, check these slides that were submitted a few days ago, "Perl 6 for Mere Mortals" (which is also another talk at FOSDEM): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8953368
I hate to repeat a comment of mine, but for the sake of emphasizing just how different Perl 6 is, here's a version of Fibonacci in Perl 6:
subset NonNegativeInt of Int where * >= 0;
proto fib (|) is cached returns NonNegativeInt {*}
multi fib (0) { 0 }
multi fib (1) { 1 }
multi fib (NonNegativeInt $n) { fib($n - 1) + fib($n - 2) }
say fib(100)
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#8I can't find it right now, but I like how this harks back to the original announcement that Perl 6 would be ready in time for Christmas—just with no commitment to which Christmas.
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#9As I said over on perl.org: From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I have been keenly looking forward to this for a long, long time. I think there's a good chance that Perl6 will not only become 'relevant in the large', once again, but also, once again, be a driving force in the overall improvement of our industry.
I agree: Perl could lead the industry by example to slow down and take 15 years to ship everything. Then everybody wouldn't have to work overtime so hard and so often, toil late into the night burning the midnight oil, and ignore their families, pets and social life.
Re: Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015
#1015 years late...
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.