Brief rant about raku (what used be called Perl 6)

[Brian Sturgill]

You said: "For at least a while there was talk that the next version would
be 11.
Because, "It goes all of the way to 11."  And because 5 + 6 = 11.
Where would programming be without the jokes?"

I was going to quip that I thought it was because that was the number of
years Perl 6 was in development! :-)
However, it turns out it has actually been 13 years... and well,
Triskaidekaphobia will prevent that from being the version number! :-)

Brian

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 4:14 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Sturgill wrote:
> > I'll make the rant brief: Raku (the new name for Perl 6) is VERY fat.
> > No way in the world it's ready for production.
>
> I'll just say thank goodness that Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) is
> officially no longer the upgrade path from Perl 5.  It has diverged so
> much from the core values that it is now considered a completely
> independent language.  Raku is now considered as just another language
> in the Perl family.  Because it uses the same backend.
>
> I was following along with Perl 6 development and didn't think the
> changes were terrible.  Although I have no idea why they decided to
> replace "print" with "say".  In Raku you don't print things you say
> things.  But otherwise it seemed acceptable.
>
> Right up until they broke the regular expression engine!  The PCRE is
> literally Perl Compatible Regular Expressions and has been adopted as
> the defacto standard syntax for modern regular expressions.  And the
> Perl 6 folks decided to change it in many incompatible ways.  Ways
> that to my eye just seemed egregious.  It wasn't better.  It was
> simply different.
>
> So I am very happy that Raku is the new name, that it is no longer
> called Perl, and that it is no longer the heir apparent for Perl.  Use
> Raku if you want.  It's not Perl.  Only time will tell if Raku gains
> any popularity or not.  At this point Perl 5 is continuing development
> and continuing incremental improvements.
>
> For at least a while there was talk that the next version would be 11.
> Because, "It goes all of the way to 11."  And because 5 + 6 = 11.
> Where would programming be without the jokes?
>
> Bob



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Brian Sturgill
President and CTO
Ataman Software, Inc.
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