A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL

Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by wwweston on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:40PM (#9000849)

I think Larry Wall once suggested it converge on perl 2π (progressively approaching 6.2831853071).

Not sure about the marketing value, but it's properly geeky.

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by chrstphrhrt on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @11:35PM (#9001757)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rA4ZRErflE

Is that what P6 feels like?

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:58PM (#9000922)

Very similar to what Knuth did with Tex. I like it.

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by JadeNB on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @10:08PM (#9001543)

Actually, I think that, for exactly that reason, it's a wrong idea. Knuth's numbering is meant to suggest that, except for minor corrections, TeX is in its final form. I can't imagine Larry Wall ever feeling that way about Perl.

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by steveklabnik on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:19AM (#9001875)

At his FOSDEM talk, he actually talked a little about how Perl 6 should be flexible enough to keep on changing basically forever... given that you can edit the parser even on the fly, it seems plausible.

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