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

[Brian Grossman]

There's always Perl 7.  https://lwn.net/Articles/824381/

Brian


On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:24 AM Brian Sturgill <brian.sturgill at ataman.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Brian Sturgill
> President and CTO
> Ataman Software, Inc.
>
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