Bill Ricker wrote:
With Perl 6 Looming, Perl 5.12 Makes Its Debut
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3876156/With+Perl+6+Looming+Perl+512+Makes+Its+Debut.htm>
http://www.developer.com/features/article.php/3876026/Perl-512-Debuts-as-Open-Source-Language-Progresses.htm
Perl 6
While the new Perl 5.12 release advances the Perl 5 platform,
developers have been working on Perl 6 since at least 2004, and that
project might still stretch out for years to come.
"Some people are tired of waiting for Perl 6, so the Perl 5
development effort is picking up again," Dubois said. "Hence the
release of Perl 5.12."
It seems less and less likely that there will be a definitive cut-over
point where a pure Perl 6 code base will be released.
Instead is seems like they will asymptotically approach the Perl 6 spec
through incremental releases of Perl 5. That seems like a sound
strategy, but could make implementing internal architecture changes
rather challenging.
When they declare it "Perl 6" could end up being rather arbitrary.
And this approach does no favors for Perl's marketing challenges. At
minimum, it blunts the "wow" factor of having something substantially
new, trading that instead for a bunch of smaller press releases, that
many publications will write off as insignificant.
Anyone have a link for a good feature-by-feature review of the 5.12.0
enhancements? Any plans for a Boston.pm meeting to cover them, as was
done for 5.10?
-Tom
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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
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