Perl 5 + Perl 6 = Perl 11

Re:Perl 5 + Perl 6 = Perl 11 by kamaal on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:32PM (#6512884)

I think Perl 6, especially Rakudo is aiming for a production release couple of years from now.

Having said that it would be pointless to go simply rewrite existing Perl 5 code to Perl 6. A good deal of Perl 5 libraries will be ported to Perl 6. And then Perl 6 will be well suited for a lot of big projects.

Perl 6 has a very nice type system, packed with all the goodies of a enterprise object oriented language,it has powerful functional programming features, and with all that it stays true to its scripting roots.

The right way to look at it is, Perl 5 and 6 will co exist for much of their individual lifetimes.

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Re:Perl 5 + Perl 6 = Perl 11 by collyw on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @01:06PM (#6516261)

Where do you get the information about aiming for release in a couple of years?

I gave up trying to find out a while ago.

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Re:Perl 5 + Perl 6 = Perl 11 by sharyanto on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:25PM (#6522909)

Probably from raiph. I saw that he mentioned that several times on Reddit. Also see the comments on my blog post: http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2013/03/dont-wai... (18 months).

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