Thank you for your insightful comment Vijay. You’re right.
Perl6’s evangelists will typically be current Perlers who are running up
against Perl5’s limitations.
So I think you’ve circumscribed the issue: what is Perl6 for?
* Perl6 could be “better than Go” for microservices – IF it’s easy
I think a name change is too radical. And yet.
I think Steve has a point, though I don’t know what to do about it. The
developers in my little corner of the world may not be up on the
new-language-of-the-week, but even they see Perl as a has-been, write-only
language, so when their brain matc
* What's the counter word for computer languages, anyway?
-mai? As an abstraction from paper printouts?
From: Brent Laabs [mailto:bsla...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:51 PM
To: Aaron Sherman
Cc: yary ; Perl6
Subject: Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?
CAUTIO
Well, Parrot builds on my new install of Cygwin. So I was sort of
looking for stuff to do.
The roadmap says that about a third of the opcodes don't have associated
tests. Would that be a nice, easy start for chipping in?
More significantly, the roadmap talks about rearchitecting the string
inte