Re^2: How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl?

The question if the rewrite is an interesting subject, given that it is still not finished and there are reasonable doubts if it will ever be finished, is another discussion. Personally I became quite confident in the Perl6 development after the publishing of The Parrot Roadmap. I am waiting for one for Rakudo now.

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Re^3: How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl? by elmex (Friar) on Jan 02, 2009 at 10:32 UTC
Ok, then more close to the original subject: Originally it was a "community rewrite", but recently Larry got more and more involved with actual "Perl 6" development, but is still not the driving force. _If_ "Perl 6" is ever finished the current way it is developed, I would call it a rewrite, which was driven by a "community". I would say it's not "the community rewrite" but "a community rewrite". The question is also which community we are talking about. It certainly is not the Perl 5 community (largely consisting of people active on p5p and all the authors who upload their modules to CPAN). Of course there are some people who are involved in both communities, like for instance Nicolas Clark or chromatic. As far as I perceived it: The bulk of the people who originally formed the "Perl 6" community, writing and discussing the RFCs, attracted people who were interested in experimenting with programming languages. After some years of breeding out new ideas and no real progress on the parrot/perl6 implementation front the bulk of Perl 5 people left mostly. So we got the community of active developers who want to get things done in realtime on the Perl 5 side, and another community of language experimentalists on the Perl 6 side.	[reply]

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Re^3: How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl?
by elmex (Friar) on Jan 02, 2009 at 10:32 UTC

Ok, then more close to the original subject: Originally it was a "community rewrite", but recently Larry got more and more involved with actual "Perl 6" development, but is still not the driving force. _If_ "Perl 6" is ever finished the current way it is developed, I would call it a rewrite, which was driven by a "community".

I would say it's not "the community rewrite" but "a community rewrite".

The question is also which community we are talking about. It certainly is not the Perl 5 community (largely consisting of people active on p5p and all the authors who upload their modules to CPAN). Of course there are some people who are involved in both communities, like for instance Nicolas Clark or chromatic.

As far as I perceived it: The bulk of the people who originally formed the "Perl 6" community, writing and discussing the RFCs, attracted people who were interested in experimenting with programming languages. After some years of breeding out new ideas and no real progress on the parrot/perl6 implementation front the bulk of Perl 5 people left mostly.

So we got the community of active developers who want to get things done in realtime on the Perl 5 side, and another community of language experimentalists on the Perl 6 side.

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