Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by TheRealPomax on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:07PM
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It's usually more indicative of a language that's found in existing codebases, but is no longer used to start new ones. If you join a team and someone in that team actually knows Perl, that's highly unusual these days.
It's the same kind of "dead" as Latin: lots of folks actively use it, but meeting someone that does is pretty dang unusual unless you work for the Catholic church, in which case "everyone still uses it, what's dead about it?"
Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:55PM
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"There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead." - Miracle Max
It doesn't mean "no developers or support" because that's at least as true of newly invented languages that HN loves to get excited about. CPAN is a thing and has been for decades.
It doesn't mean "doesn't work, not delivered yet" because there it is.
It doesn't mean "no exciting features" because that's not true either.
It seems to be more of a condemnation than a description. I suspect it's really just a synonym for "passé, uncool, brings back memories of the 1990s I was trying to forget".