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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by TimToady (Parson) on Sep 08, 2004 at 00:27 UTC
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The answer to both your questions is "yes". There certainly exists someone who knows there is no timeline for the release of Perl 6. And it is months away--we just don't know how many.
But we're pretty happy with how it's been going lately, because a number of us are insane about making it work. Perl 6 has been making a lot of progress in being Good and Fast. If it gets any Cheaper, though, we'll starve to death...
Seriously, we're pedaling as hard we can, and in some cases harder than we can. We'll get there. | [reply] |
Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Sep 07, 2004 at 20:19 UTC
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It's days away. . . it's just that no one knows how many days. . .
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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Sep 07, 2004 at 19:06 UTC
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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by sintadil (Pilgrim) on Sep 08, 2004 at 01:35 UTC
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Here's a version of an old axiom, which you should ponder.
Good, quick, cheap. Pick any two.
I, and many others, have chosen good + cheap, at the exclusion of "quick" (i.e. that the software would be "finished" quickly, not that it won't perform quickly). The same is true with the release cycles of certain operating systems and software. It's done when it's done. Not before. As a result, certain operating systems and software are of much higher quality than their competitors. (I'm not listing which ones because 1. it's (?:flame|troll)bait, and 2. it's quite off-topic.)
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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by mbeast (Beadle) on Sep 07, 2004 at 21:48 UTC
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Sometime after HL2 but before Duke Nukem. | [reply] |
Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2004 at 21:49 UTC
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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by jacques (Priest) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:38 UTC
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Perhaps this should go in the FAQ?
Every week, it seems, we get people asking about the release (or death) of Perl 6...
It would be nice if we could point to the FAQ instead of copying & pasting all of the related nodes we find via super search. | [reply] |
Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by artist (Parson) on Feb 22, 2005 at 21:40 UTC
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Why you need to know ?. I think that perl 5.8 is very good and we have perlmonks.org at our disposal. Ask the developers or use whatever on CPAN that has been developed. Whenever it will be ready, I suppose there will be a accepting and learning curve and lots of problems with CPAN modules and your existing code. I believe that people will continue to work with 5.8 or 5.10 even an year after perl 6 will come, because of the practice and liking from the past.
To find number of days/months/years, we can start predicting game. I thought there was a poll on this also somewhere. I had read somewhere that first it was set to release in August,2001. You can also read the timeline by Larry posted here.
Here is more accurate answer from perl6 development faq.
When will Perl 6 be released?
The current plan is to have a working 6.0.0 compiler ready in the 3rd quarter of 2005, based on a snapshot of the language design taken in late 2004. This goal is, however, predicated on The Perl Foundation receiving sufficient contributions to fund the 5 or more developer-years of effort required to complete the implementation. Without that funding, development will continue, but on a volunteer basis and hence more slowly.
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Re: Is There A Timeline for Release of Perl 6??
by holli (Abbot) on Feb 22, 2005 at 20:59 UTC
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while ( !$perl6finished ) { &codePerl5; sleep (86400); }
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