<div dir="ltr">There's always Perl 7. <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/824381/">https://lwn.net/Articles/824381/</a><div><br></div><div>Brian</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:24 AM Brian Sturgill <<a href="mailto:brian.sturgill@ataman.com">brian.sturgill@ataman.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>You said: "For at least a while there was talk that the next version would be 11.<br>Because, "It goes all of the way to 11." And because 5 + 6 = 11.<br>Where would programming be without the jokes?"<br><br>I was going to quip that I thought it was because that was the number of years Perl 6 was in development! :-)<br>However, it turns out it has actually been 13 years... and well, Triskaidekaphobia will prevent that from being the version number! :-)<br><br></div>Brian<br><div><br>On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 4:14 PM Bob Proulx <<a href="mailto:bob@proulx.com" target="_blank">bob@proulx.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Brian Sturgill wrote:<br>> > I'll make the rant brief: Raku (the new name for Perl 6) is VERY fat.<br>> > No way in the world it's ready for production.<br>><br>> I'll just say thank goodness that Raku (formerly known as Perl 6) is<br>> officially no longer the upgrade path from Perl 5. It has diverged so<br>> much from the core values that it is now considered a completely<br>> independent language. Raku is now considered as just another language<br>> in the Perl family. Because it uses the same backend.<br>><br>> I was following along with Perl 6 development and didn't think the<br>> changes were terrible. Although I have no idea why they decided to<br>> replace "print" with "say". In Raku you don't print things you say<br>> things. But otherwise it seemed acceptable.<br>><br>> Right up until they broke the regular expression engine! The PCRE is<br>> literally Perl Compatible Regular Expressions and has been adopted as<br>> the defacto standard syntax for modern regular expressions. And the<br>> Perl 6 folks decided to change it in many incompatible ways. Ways<br>> that to my eye just seemed egregious. It wasn't better. It was<br>> simply different.<br>><br>> So I am very happy that Raku is the new name, that it is no longer<br>> called Perl, and that it is no longer the heir apparent for Perl. Use<br>> Raku if you want. It's not Perl. Only time will tell if Raku gains<br>> any popularity or not. At this point Perl 5 is continuing development<br>> and continuing incremental improvements.<br>><br>> For at least a while there was talk that the next version would be 11.<br>> Because, "It goes all of the way to 11." And because 5 + 6 = 11.<br>> Where would programming be without the jokes?<br>><br>> Bob<br><br><br><br>--<br>Brian Sturgill<br>President and CTO<br>Ataman Software, Inc.<br></div></div>
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