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Postings from February 2007
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Abigail wrote: > For PR reasons, it would have been better if 5.10 was released three > years ago (with whatever features then available), and that is now going > to be 5.10 would be 5.12 (or 5.14). Three years ago everyone was waiting for Perl 6. And now some quotes... Quote from 'Damian Conway\'s Perl 6 Update' (February 2001): 'Step 7: Alpha release ... * Scheduled: June 2001' Quote from 'The State of the Onion' (by Larry Wall, 2002): 'Obviously, Perl 5 has been aging, but there is no reason to bury it just yet. And we haven't. But Perl 5 will eventually succumb to the bitrot that overtakes all large projects, and we have to be ready for the transition to Perl 6 when it is time.' and 'Let me put this bluntly. If we'd done Perl 6 on a schedule, you'd have it by now. And it would be crap. Perl 6 will be ready when all the inputs are there, and all the event-driven decision circuits have had a chance to make their decisions. We're not the least bit afraid to slip our schedule, because we don't have a schedule. We just have a plan.' Quote from 'The State of the Onion' (by Larry Wall, August 19, 2004): '... [Apocalypse 12] ... With that, the design of Perl 6 can be said to be largely complete. We are now in the endgame, which is the name of this screensaver. Now that the Parrot engine is in such fine shape, it's time to concentrate on writing a fine Perl 6 compiler to target it.' Robin