On 28 January 2011 12:14, Aaron Crane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perl@aaroncrane.co.uk">perl@aaroncrane.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Andrew Smith <<a href="mailto:asmith9983@gmail.com">asmith9983@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Perl 6 [is] dead in water.<br>
<br>
That seems an odd way to describe a language whose specification is<br>
converging on a firm state, and whose most popular implementation is<br>
being worked on by a growing team of dedicated volunteers at<br>
ever-increasing velocity.<br>
<br>
Anyone who's decided that Perl 6 does not meet their needs is, of<br>
course, free to avoid using it. But I think it's unreasonable to<br>
badmouth the efforts of those who are working on it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think that suggesting Perl 6 is irrelevant is equivalent</div><div>to badmouthing the excellent efforts of the volunteers working </div>
<div>on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Perl 6 has given us, among other things:</div><div><br></div><div> * greater crossover between Perl and Haskell communities</div><div> * some great innovations, many of which have been implemented in Perl 5</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it's also:</div><div><br></div><div> * lost a lot of passion, interest, and face, by virtue of being so </div><div> big, and so late.</div><div> * I understand all the reasons it's so big, and so late, but the</div>
<div> greatest emotion I feel when speaking about Perl 6 is usually </div><div> irritation at having to be mocked about it by people outside of </div><div> the Perl echo chamber.</div><div><br></div><div>When Perl 6 is released, how many companies will move their </div>
<div>codebase to Perl 6? </div><div>I think many of us are more likely to remain Perl 5 programmers </div><div>than become Perl 6 programmers, professionally.</div><div><br></div><div>(And I sometimes think, semi-seriously, that I'm more likely to </div>
<div>become a professional Haskell programmer than a Perl 6 one. </div><div>I suspect this shows up the extent of the problem ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>osf'</div></div>