Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming 132
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.
"The real problem..." he explained (Score:1, Funny)
"Was that we wrote Perl 6 in Perl 5. What the hell were we thinking? It's Perl all the way down."
Re:But (Score:3, Funny)
Will it run on HURD?
That will have to wait.
The HURD developers have just noticed that their code would be more elegant if it were implemented using the new features of a modern programming language, so they're now starting a ground up rewrite of the HURD kernel in Perl 6.
Re:Fourteen years? (Score:4, Funny)
Growing beards.
even more rough edges (Score:4, Funny)
Larry went crazy, incorporating everything and the kitchen sink into Perl 6 and continues even now.
Imagine a swiss army knife with fold-out basketball, urinal, blender, spark plug gap tester, hog nose tag plier, etc.
what a farce, HURD may be still be floundering after a longer time but Perl 6 has gone in more directions