Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video]

Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by cygx on Sunday November 15, 2015 @06:23PM (#10571711)

There obviously is some marketing involved, but in principle, this is less about Rakudo, and more about Larry freezing the 6.0 language version.

One can hope that development focus will then switch from semantics to things like stability, deployment and performance, ie the things you strongly advocated for years ago.

I guess we'll see if it's going to happen that way...

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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by chromatic on Monday November 16, 2015 @12:30PM (#10575708)

While it may be technically true that "Perl 6.0 released!" is an accurate headline if you define "Perl 6.0" as "the test suite for the 6.0 language version", I suspect that almost everyone reading that headline will expect to see a stable language implementation.

Given the reception to the past year's worth of discussion around "Get ready to party", it seems irresponsible to me to continue with these semantic distinctions, as they're lost on the intended audience.

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