[Edinburgh-pm] F#

[A Smith]

Your last paragraph is where I'm coming from. I never was a great
programmer, but I need to understand the programming toolkit, to ensure  I
can get software written which is robust,reliable anbd maintainable. Java
will be around for a long time due to its installed base and teaching
courses. I'm sure the People working on Perl 6 are committed to producing a
quality product, as is  almost everyone  working on a software project. Its
not possible for anyone to be an experienced expert on all software tools,
so  we need to focus our attention on those  where we can gain experience.
I  was trying to get a view as to whether F#  was likely to become a
language on all platforms if it had been fully open sourced. I obviously
poked a hornets nest!

On my personal learning curve, I am almost swayed to write a Haskell program
rather than a bash script on my Linux workstation,  as it nearly always
works correctly if I can get it past GHC! Always my fault,never GHC.
--
Andrew

On 28 January 2011 12:25, Hakim Cassimally <hakim.cassimally at gmail.com>wrote:

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