Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by dragonwriter on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:44PM
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> Then it should have been called "1.0".
6.c was described, both before and after its release, as being the “1.0” release of the Perl 6 language.
> More seriously, slow performance, missing features, bugs, etc. were part of the reason for not calling it "1.0"
No, they weren't.
The first “production-ready” release of Rakudo Star release was shortly after the 6.c spec release, in version 2016.01 (Rakudo Star uses date-based versions numbers.) If they were using semver-ish numbering for Star releases rather than dates, this would have been the 1.0 implementation (as opposed to spec) release.
6.c was described, both before and after its release, as being the “1.0” release of the Perl 6 language.
> More seriously, slow performance, missing features, bugs, etc. were part of the reason for not calling it "1.0"
No, they weren't.
The first “production-ready” release of Rakudo Star release was shortly after the 6.c spec release, in version 2016.01 (Rakudo Star uses date-based versions numbers.) If they were using semver-ish numbering for Star releases rather than dates, this would have been the 1.0 implementation (as opposed to spec) release.