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in thread Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6"

It's not about believing but having a scientifically sound (hence productive) discussion.

Jonathan shows stuff in this video, you can watch it and share your opinion.

Where we agree: Perl5 should certainly not count on Perl6 to save the day.

> I stopped believing the people who made those promises over and over again.

Well you were one of the promise makers and I believed them.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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Re^13: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" (updated)
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 02, 2019 at 21:41 UTC
    Jonathan shows stuff in this video

    Not an order of magnitude performance improvement.

    you were one of the promise makers and I believed them.

    When the facts change, I try to change my mind.

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      And who tells me that you'll not need to change your mind again in 2020?

      YOU convinced me back then with the argument that Perl 5's inner workings have become unmaintainable and Perl 6 will be much easier to work with.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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        And who tells me that you'll not need to change your mind again in 2020?

        If there's a reliable, repeatable benchmark showing Rakudo can sustainably outperform Perl in the large, I'll change my mind. "Slower than Ruby parsing log files" suggests that's unlikely to happen.

        YOU convinced me back then with the argument that Perl 5's inner workings have become unmaintainable and Perl 6 will be much easier to work with.

        XS is still a hazard, but I didn't count on Perl adopting a yearly release cycle.

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