[Fwd: Perl 6 development begins in earnest]

[pabl0]

brian d foy wrote:

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 18, 2000 contact brian d foy,
> brian+perl6 at smithrenaud.com
>
> LARRY WALL ANNOUNCES BROAD VISION FOR PERL 6
>
> In his keynote address to the O'Reilly Second Open Source
> Convention, Larry Wall laid out his vision for the future
> development of Perl 6.  Larry reports that "Perl 6
> development has began in earnest".
>
> The next version of Perl is a chance for the language
> developers to both rewrite the internals and externals of
> Perl based on their experience from developing Perl 5, and
> Chip Salzenbergs work with Topaz. Larry promises that Perl
> 6 will be "better, stronger, faster" and that there will be
> a clear, clean migration path from Perl 5 to Perl 6.  A
> preview release of should be available by next summer.
>
> Perl 6 will use a development model that draws from the
> lessons learned from perl5-porters and other large open
> source projects such as the Apache web server and the Linux
> operating system. Development topics will be assigned to
> working groups which will work under a central project
> manager.  Nat Torkington is the interim project manager.
> Details will be made available in the Perl 6 section of
> www.perl.org.
>
> The current major release of Perl will continue to be
> supported.  The maintenance track will be led by Jarkko
> Hietaniemi. Current development tracks, such as Unicode
> support, will be finished in Perl 5.
>
> Interested developers can subscribe to the Perl 6
> development mailing list by sending a message to
> bootstrap-subscribe at perl.org.
>
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