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Those with Loaded Mouths, and Those Who Code
This is complete vaporware. The constraints and software development link above is just annoying. There is no excuse for an 8 year long dev effort with no milestones or end in sight. We could have had a nice language by now with some simple features like parameter lists...but we're stuck with Perl 5 circa 1996 because some people got big useless ideas into their heads and hijacked what was once a useful technology and turned it into an obsolete pile of code about as valueable as awk or sed. The article should really begin to change, from a "whats new and cool in [Perl 6]" to "why [Perl 6] was such an utter failure". the [Perl 6] team has failed us all.
Justforasecond, Personal Comments on the Perl 6 discussion page on Wikipedia
If my economics are wrong, show me. If my math is wrong, show me. If you know the secret to software development, show me. Here's zero dollars and the source code. Fix everything you can about Perl 5. See you in two years.
Here's 1084 patches I've made or applied to Parrot in the past three years. Not coincidentally, I've had actual Perl 6 code running in public for about the same amount of time. You can find it if you search the web. Of course, you can find Perl 6 and Parrot milestones if you search the web too.
P.S. Perl 5.10, circa 2007 is quite decent. Try upgrading to software released this millennium.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Perl 5 (Score:1)
but we're stuck with Perl 5 circa 1996
Anyone who thinks that Perl 2008 is just remotely like Perl 1996 should have his perception ability examined.
From the 1996 Perl thinking "we don't need no steenking objects" over the new milenium's "it's my code, I will obfuscate it" we've arrived at a
Perl 6 (Score:1)
I'm not sure about this. Would Perl people have made a 5.10 with better features years ago if there hadn't been a Perl 6 effort? Or would we all have gone to new, more exciting languages?
It's true, it seems that development of new features Perl 5 was more or less stopped for some tim
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Would we have Moose if Perl had a strict object system?
See Joose [google.com] for an example of Moose-ness in Javascript, although to be fair the JS object system is not really so strict, but certainly not as loose as Perl.
And if you want to see something really scary, take a look at this Java version of the Perl 6 metamodel which Moose was based on [cpan.org]. If ever there was a strict object system, Java would be it. Of course the surface syntax of a Java-Moose would be intensely verbose and completely unusable unless you basically implemented some kind of pre-processing synt
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History doesn't support experiments; there's no way of knowing if that's true. Also I suspect that if you found ten people dissatisfied with some aspect of Perl 5 and asked them to design one feature apiece to fix Perl 5, they'd all choose something different. (History supports that assertion. We call it the Perl 6 RFC process. It didn't work. I'm not
Even if it wasn't tripe, that was the wrong place (Score:1)
Re: Those with Loaded Mouths, and Those Who Code (Score:1)
Let's try to do just that.
Here's zero dollars and the source code. Fix everything you can about Perl 5. See you in two years.
I disagree with your economics. While the sums spent on Perl 6 development were certainly not vast, it may actually be one of the better funded open source language developments out there, certainly compared with Perl 5 during the late 20th century period in which I followed it c
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Charles Nutter, Ola Bini, John Lam, and at least one more person I'm forgetting at the moment are all funded Ruby implementation developers.
Guido van Rossum is a funded Python developer. I don't know whether to count Alex Martelli. Jim Hugunin is a funded Python developer.
I don't know who's funded to work on Lua. I thought it was a research project from Roberto's university, but I haven't confirmed that just n
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My impression is that Nutter & Bini are on JRuby and Lam is on IronRuby, so I'm not sure they should count for funding of the mainline interpreter.
Guido van Rossum is a funded Python developer.
Full time? My impression was that he had other duties at Google as well.
To find funded Perl 5 developers, you have to go to ActiveState
Who, I believe, tend to fu
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Let's take the $150,000 paid to Larry, Damian, and Dan, the $70,000 from NL.net, the $10,000 from the Mozilla Foundation, $3000 from Vienna.pm, and $20,000 from various Summer of Code projects. That's $255,000 over eight years for a language design, at least one modern virtual machine, and one implementation. That's just under $32,000 per year.
I invit
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Let's take the $150,000 paid to Larry, Damian, and Dan, the $70,000 from NL.net, the $10,000 from the Mozilla Foundation, $3000 from Vienna.pm, and $20,000 from various Summer of Code projects. That's $255,000 over eight years for a language design, at least one modern virtual machine, and one implementation. That's just under $32,000 per year.
My point