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Postings from June 2006
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:05:55AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
> Lately I've been seeing comments in various forums along the following
> lines:
>
> 1. Perl 5 is a dead language
> 2. Perl 5 is going to be replaced by Perl 6 so there is no point in
> using Perl 5.
>
> I think these are a serious problem for the language and the
> community. When college teachers are saying that teaching PHP makes
> more sense because Perl is a dead language there is a problem. When
Releasing a new version of Perl5 on average once a year for the first
six years of Perl5, and releasing only one new version of Perl5 (5.8)
since the Perl6 effort started 6 years ago didn't exactly help to
eliminate this notion. Perlhist tells us the following:
1994 Perl 5.000 released
1995 Perl 5.001
1996 Perl 5.002/5.003
1997 Perl 5.004
1998 Perl 5.005
2000 Perl 5.6.0. Perl6 effort starts.
2002 Perl 5.8.0.
It's more than four years ago that the last version of Perl5 was released.
If you want a reason why people think Perl5 is dead, look at perl5. Don't
point the finger at Perl6. Four year is for ever in this world.
Abigail