Comment: Re:Top five things I think are missing from Rakudo (Score 1) on 2009.08.10 22:48
Attached to: "Perl 6 'finished'" isn't the story I want to tell
I see it as being promised Perl 5, but having to settle for Perl 4.
Even Perl 5 isn't "finished" though. If the original Perl 5 had been the ultimate destination then everyone would have been sat in the same place for the last 15 years.
Perhaps it's better to imagine the Perl 6 spec as being analogous to what people might have envisioned for, say, Perl 5.10. The original Perl 5 didn't implement all the features from that "spec" (like given/when, or say), but it was still usable. The Perl 6 spec will inevitably evolve in the same way that the Perl 5 implementation has, and by its very nature a spec is always going to be a step or three ahead of its implementations.
Whether that leaves Rakudo Star as analogous to Perl 5.0 or to some 5.0 pre-release I don't know. Provided that it's clear enough what Rakudo Star does and does not do then I don't see a problem. The only difference from Perl 5 is the existence of that spec, which just means that we have better fore-knowledge of where we might be going.
