[pm-h] Perl 7?

[B. Estrade]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Mark Allen <mrallen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This conversational topic comes up from time to time and it really is a
> bikeshed.
>
> It's going to take more than a new version number to get (most) people
> (re-)interested in Perl in a major way.
>
> That's my NSHO.

This is a good recent interview with Damian Conway.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/conway-perl

He compares Perl to the air we breath, you don't notice it much
because it's all around you. I tend to agree.

Regarding the lack of interest in Perl, I've come to the conclusion
that if you come from a traditional *nix POV, Perl is inevitable in
your progression from writing shell scripts.  Some move on, but I
gather many do not - and why would you?  My point is that it might
have more to do with a decline (or lack of noise from) true
*nixphiles.  You might jump to Ruby due to Puppet if you're managing
largish infrastructure; I am not sure how one would fall into Python
from this path, but I am sure there are ways.

People who poo-poo Perl 5 typically are typically paradigm
(OOP/functional/DSL) zealots and language snobs. I think it gets lost
on them the originating purpose and goals of Perl.

In the video Conway makes another good point that nearly all languages
do most things well or good enough. This is an indication that
programming languages and environments are pretty close to being a
"finished" technology (sort of like cars, radios, tvs, refrigerators,
etc).  The point of me bringing this up is to say that I think at this
point in the game, people are making language decisions on the same
kinds of reasons that they choose to drive one car over the other.

Brett

>
> Mark
>
> ________________________________
> From: B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com>
> To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:52 AM
> Subject: [pm-h] Perl 7?
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> It's a bike shed (symbolic and shrewd as it may be), but I like the
> idea...and not just because I've mentioned this myself to anyone who'd
> listen. :)
>
>     http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html
>
> Brett
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