Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by 6thaccount2 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:36PM (#20831057)

Lizormato and some other folks have put in hundreds of performance fixes...I think these things just take time. The language might have been in development and design since the 90's, but it only just got to 1.0 or a "stable release" in 2017 I think. I'm surprised Larry Wall hasn't written a Perl6 book yet. Plenty of other authors have, but I was really looking forward to something from him or Damien Conway.

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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by petre on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:06PM (#20833094)

I've installed just about every release since 2017. It's a nice language but still slow and lacking library support. The best thing about it is probably the rational math.

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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by 6thaccount2 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @05:28PM (#20833896)

Thanks for the information!

Yea... libraries are always good (especially for math and analysis), but I find that powerful languages need far fewer libraries to get things done. APL can do something with a few characters that might commonly be implemented as a lengthy function or library in some languages.

Windows Powershell can surprisingly do a lot of what Perl 6 can do and people mostly understand the limitations. You can automate processes, build your own DSL, have full OO support, full .NET interop, concurrency, you can pipe data around kind of like with FP...etc. It doesn't have some of the more perlish features though.

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