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Perl 6 Released (wordpress.com)
Earlier this month, we noted the Perl 6 advent calendar. Now, an anonymous reader writes to note that, right on schedule, and after 15 years of work, Perl 6 has been released. The top two bullet points in the linked description say that the newest Perl "retains the core values of Perl: expressiveness, getting the job done, taking influences from natural language, and pushing the boundaries of language design," and
that is "has clean, modern syntax, rooted in familiar constructs but revisiting and revising the things that needed it." However, while it's nice to see Perl 6 reach official release, the team behind it takes pains to note that work goes on: "We will continue to ship monthly releases, which will continue to improve performance and our user’s experience." Further, "[T]his Rakudo release is not considered the primary deliverable for this Christmas; it is the language specification, known as “roast” (Repository Of All Spec Tests), that is considered the primary deliverable."
Are you kidding? I'm still coding in Forth!
I do that too...
Forth is great too....
small powerfull & highly customizable
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
Perl 6 has not been released "after 15 years of work". It has been marred by one disaster after another. It has been released after 15 years of failure.
Those who have been following its development then entire time will remember the Parrot virtual machine shenanigans, which wasted many years, and prevented a usable Perl 6 implementation from becoming available.
Then there was the Pugs implementation of it, which actually seemed slightly promising at first. That, of course, turned into a disaster when the lead programmer decided to change his gender. (I'm not even joking!)
There's also Perl 6's absurd logo, which renders Perl 6 unusable in any serious environment. We'd be laughed at if we showed the Perl 6 home page to managers, executives or clients when advocating for the use of Perl 6. They'd think we were pulling their leg by using a language with such a childish logo.
Lately the focus has been on Rakudo which has taken years to produce something even minimally useful. I've read reports that it's slow and forces you to use some obscure MoarVM they've created (this sounds to me like they're on the road to another Parrot-style failure!) or the JVM.
Perl 6 has been a shameful episode in the history of programming languages. It's even worse that it has permanently tainted the Perl name.
FORTH RULES! I wrote a FORTH the other day inside my Java Unit test environment to script all the JavaEE client tests. I mean literally I wrote a forth, it took a few hours. Its missing some features, ain't quite ANSI standard, but its real. No piece of software ever designed in the history of Man is as elegant as FORTH. Does everything perl can do, feature for feature, in 1/10,000th of the code.
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson