Re: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur

To be honest, I haven't seen any Perl 6 replies to questions asked on Perl 5, so I'm not sure where you get the "division" from.

I think the past has shown that things happening in Perl 6 land also tend to influence decisions that apply to Perl 5, in the sense that Perl 5 usually adapts the things seen as beneficial for its own purposes. So I'm not convinced that announcements of teachings about Perl 6 are to be banned here, either.

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Re^2: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur by dagufri (Acolyte) on Feb 24, 2016 at 20:00 UTC
I decided to join PM this week as I keep coming back here for various questions. Same thing for me, I cannot recall a thread where a Perl6 solution was presented to a problem that confused me. I might have ignored it though since Perl6 has not been that interesting to me.	[reply]
Re^2: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur by u65 (Chaplain) on Feb 15, 2016 at 17:35 UTC
I did that today in node 1155267 of topic socket checker in multiple hosts for multiple destination so I'm guilty as charged (and got downvoted to boot). I think I want to see a split to a separate Perl 6 monastery because I can't seem to help my bent toward Perl 6 advocacy.	[reply]
Re^2: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 07, 2016 at 16:02 UTC
I mean the division in purpose, in functionality, of this website (which is a sort of microcosm of the same thing happening in the broader Perl world). Mostly talking about the domination of the "Perl News" `[sic]` category here (as well as, off-site, for example, blogs.perl.org, the TPF presence at FOSDEM that I pointed out, the Perl Weekly content, the content of talks at the YAPCs, etc.). If I were a newb and I consulted the "Perl News" section (or any of the entry points to the Perl world listed above) I might easily conclude that "Perl 6" is where it is at, among the PerlMonks, anyway. (Edit: I do note, however, that http://perlnews.org, linked from the http://perl.org front page, has not been updated since April 16, 2015 ... perhaps the barriers to publication there are higher?) I can see the motivation to conflate "Perl 6" with Perl on the part of the hobbyists, who would like to get more people involved in their thing. But for a monastery that exists to provide opportunities to teach and learn Perl, I see no benefit to such conflation. Rather I see an obligation to deobfuscate the issue, and provide clarity for novice and experienced monks who come here expecting to read about Perl. "News" articles recounting someone's adventures in learning or hacking Ruby or Go or Node.js are not considered appropriate for publishing on this site. Despite "Perl 6"'s historical roots in Perl, it is one of that group (other languages), not Perl, and I don't think it's any more appropriate here than they are. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply] [d/l]