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Patrick Michaud is the pumpking for the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and was formerly a Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is currently a software developer and consultant focused on open source development and applications, including Perl, PmWiki, and Linux.
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Patrick Michaud is the pumpking for the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and was formerly a Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is currently a software developer and consultant focused on open source development and applications, including Perl, PmWiki, and Linux.
Friday April 23, 2010
06:38 PM
More Perl 6 Anti-FUD
More Perl 6 Anti-FUD here:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=836533
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=836564
and thoughts on the name "Perl 6"
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=836626
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To be honest, I really think a part of all this isn't FUD.
Perl 6 is being talked about... inside the Perl community. You don't see articles by random people not involved in its development somehow.
As some of the comments state, I honestly think Perl 6 should really change its name to something like Perl++ or PerlNG (next-generation) and free up the name for regular Perl.
I'd rather see a Perl 6 which is basically Perl 5.12 but with some heavy optimizations done to add support for a built-in Moose-like synta
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Oh ho ho ho, caaareful with that one.
Though I don’t disagree with the idea.
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Oh well, maybe I should have phrased that as "in the same way C++ has more modern features than C".
But I believe you were still able to understand my point.
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Yes I did. What I’m saying is that marketing-wise, you probably want to stay far away from making C ↔ C++ parallels… “Modern” doesn’t cut it either, clueful people consider C++ an abomination [yosefk.com]. You don’t want to go anywhere near that.