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Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming

Posted by Soulskill on from the secretly-being-developed-by-blizzard dept.

M-Saunders writes: Perl 6 has been in development since 2000. So why, 14 years later, hasn't it been released yet? Linux Voice caught up with Damian Conway, one of the architects of Perl 6, to find out what's happening. "Perl 6 has all of the same features [as Perl 5] but with the rough edges knocked off of them", he says. Conway also talks about the UK's Year of Code project, and how to get more people interested in programming.

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  1. Re:"The real problem..." he explained by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. The real problem is that it is not backwards-compatible with Perl 5, making its rate of adoption guaranteed to be almost zero.

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  2. Re: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See also: Python 3