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in thread Perl 6: From Regular Expressions to Grammars, Part 4

The only reason the Not-at-all-Perl 6 has so far put little strain on this forum is that next to no one uses the language, next to no one posts about it and next to no one cares. Therefore the number of posts that would be sure to confuse everyone with incompatible yet confusingly similar syntax is sufficiently small that they do not cause a problem. If the language ever gets followers and the number of posts grows we will end up with loads of "your code doesn't work for me, I get syntax errors" due to people running Perl code in For-God's-sake-rename-the-thing 6 and vice versa.

Jenda
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Re^10: Perl 6: From Regular Expressions to Grammars, Part 4 (board politics)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2016 at 12:40 UTC

    Yes, but I don't see any of the perceived problems happening yet.

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      When you see them it will be way too late.

      Jenda
      Enoch was right!
      Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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        There is nothing wrong, per se, with having a separate Perl 6 monks site, if that is what a lot of those folks want, and someone has the inclination to build it. But if that confluence of factors has not occurred yet, we, as the perl 5 community, cannot force it to happen. We -- the Perl community as a whole -- have, perhaps unconsciously, taken the YAGNI approach. Building a separate P6monks site before there is a critical mass of P6 monks is like a kind of premature optimization. If and when the time comes that the Perl 6 community, as a distinct thing from the Perl 5 community, needs a separate community web site, they can build one.

        My crystal ball is no worse than yours, and I predict that there will come a tipping point (from 5 to 6), at which time this site will be truly moribund. (That is to say, the rumors of its demise will no longer be exaggerations.) At that time, we might even find perl 5 slingers "freeloading" on the perl 6 community site. I for one would be willing to do that, because -- I predict -- that site will be sound in a lot of the ways that this site is broken.

        I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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