On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:23:56PM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote: > What's in a name. > Is it also > CPAN is the Comprehensive Parrot Archive Network > CPAN is the Comprehensive Pieton Archive Network > CPAN is the Comprehensive Pony Archive Network > CPAN is the Comprehensive PHP Archive Network > CPAN is the Comprehensive PRuby Archive Network > > So, where do you stop? > Perl6 and Perl5 have some things in common, just like PHP and Perl5. > Some people say that Perl6 is a different language, not a next > generation of Perl5.
With parrot supporting many scripting languages and making them accessible from perl, there is a huge value in having cpan.pm (whatever it ends up being called) providing transparent access to all of those and more - regardless of whether they are all in a single archive or (more likely) a network of archives, each providing some sub-set of the possibilities. Taking a valuable module written in another language and rewriting it in perl has been done many times in the past, but will be less necessary in the future. A perl6 sub-class of the original module will be a much easier task and often provide the specific addition that is required. > Do we need to install Perl5 on our system to get access to the > install tools to install Perl6 modules? Certainly we need to install Perl5 *modules* until they are *all* superceeded by Perl6 (or Ruby or Python) replacements.
