I think the developers of Perl 6 would do everybody a big favor by renaming it. Calling it Perl 6 implies something that increasingly doesn't seem to be true, and inhibits interest in and active development of Perl 5.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Metro" <tmetro-boston...@vl.com> To: "Ronald J Kimball" <r...@tamias.net> Cc: "L-boston-pm" <boston-pm@mail.pm.org> Sent: 05/06/2010 9:32 PM Subject: Spam:*, Re: [Boston.pm] Perl 5 to Perl 6 evolution Ronald J Kimball wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> 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. > > I think you have some misconceptions about the relationship between Perl 5 > and Perl 6. Perl 6 is essentially a new language that happens to > share some history and syntax with Perl 1-5. I realize that Perl 6, both from a language design and internal architecture perspective, was always intended to be a ground-up redesign. However, the ideals of a plan and the practical reality don't always match up. There isn't exactly a production-ready Perl 6, or even anything close to it, to make the case that a pure Perl 6 is a viable alternative to evolving Perl 5. I'd rather see the products of the Perl 6 "blue sky" design end up being incorporated into Perl 5, than to have those ideas effectively shelved waiting for a Perl 6 platform that may never adequately materialize. > The ongoing development of Perl 5 is not aimed at implementing > the Perl 6 spec. That may not be the primary goal, but it seems to be what is happening for the past few releases. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
