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On 6/19/06, Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> wrote: > 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. When you dont count minor releases yes thats true. > 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. I think the two are related. But its a good point regardless. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"