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<p>Dear Perl friends,</p>
<p>I love Perl 5 and look forward to Perl 7. I just haven't had the
time/patience to sit around and wait for Raku to reach maturity
since 2001. I know Mark S. has been a strong evangelist for Raku,
so I apologize for saying that I am unlikely to move to Raku....
instead, I plan to jump from Perl 5 to Perl 7 when it is ready!<br>
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<p>Warmest regards to everyone,<br>
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<p>Mark</p>
<p>Mark Daniel Ward, Ph.D.<br>
<br>
Director of The Data Mine<br>
Purdue University<br>
1301 Third Street<br>
West Lafayette, IN 47906-4206<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:datamine@purdue.edu">datamine@purdue.edu</a><br>
phone: (765) 496-9563<br>
<br>
Professor of Statistics and<br>
(by courtesy) of Mathematics<br>
Purdue University<br>
150 North University Street<br>
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mdw@purdue.edu">mdw@purdue.edu</a><br>
phone: (765) 496-9563<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/7/20 4:49 PM, Dave Jacoby wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't think so. <br>
<br>
Perl 6 isn't Perl 6, it's Raku. Rather than being the next
numbered Perl, it is its own thing. <br>
<br>
Perl 7 is the next major jump. Perl hasn't had a major jump
since 1994, although I would argue 5.10 would have constituted
one, and maybe 5.20 or so, all things being equal. This one
acknowledges the improvements that have been made over the last
twenty years and have been sitting behind flags and elevates
them.
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<div>(Sawyer says it's to be released within the year. I
suggested, if possible, "before Christmas", but who knows.)<br>
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Perl 11 is Will Braswell trying to unify things that will
not be unified. There may be energy behind RPerl, his fast,
compiled subset of Perl, but I'm not hearing anyone talk up
Perl 11 but him.
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<div>So, there's Perl 5. Perl 7 is coming soon. I would
guess we'd be at 7.2 or later before that's the perl in
/usr/bin/perl for any Linux distribution you don't make
yourself. That's why we have perlbrew.<br>
<br>
5 and 7. Not messy.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:32 PM
Mark Senn <<a href="mailto:mark@purdue.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">mark@purdue.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The
numbering system for Perl is getting messy.<br>
<br>
Perl 5 is the Perl that has been in use many years.<br>
<br>
Perl 6 is the newest member of the Perl family---the language
was<br>
announced in ~2001 and was released in ~2018. The language
was<br>
completely redesigned and all software was rewritten. Perl 6
was<br>
renamed to "Raku" in the last year or so.<br>
<br>
From <a href="https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/</a><br>
Perl 7.0 is going to be Perl 5.32 but with different,
saner, more<br>
modern defaults. You won’t have to enable most of the
things you are<br>
already doing because they are enabled for you. The major
version<br>
jump sets the boundary between how we have been doing
things and<br>
what we can do in the future.<br>
These lines will probably not be needed at the the top of each
Perl program<br>
use utf8;<br>
use strict;<br>
use warnings;<br>
use open qw(:std :utf8);<br>
no feature qw(indirect);<br>
use feature qw(signatures);<br>
no warnings qw(experimental::signatures);<br>
<br>
Perl 11 is the proposed reunification of Perl 5 and Perl 6.
It will<br>
probably run faster than Perl 5 when completed. It hasn't
been released<br>
yet. See <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/william-braswell/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/interviews/william-braswell/</a><br>
for more information.<br>
<br>
My favorite language that started in the Perl family is Raku.<br>
<br>
Mark Senn, Senior Software Engineer,<br>
Engineering Computer Network, Purdue University<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dave Jacoby<br>
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“There is nothing obvious” <br>
— Theo<br>
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