Re^2: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

Most people don't believe that Perl 6 is "the next version of Perl".

Citation please.

The language is different enough that "Perl 6" isn't an appropriate name.

The one person who gets to choose the name disagrees.

... each time you say "Perl 6", Perl5 dies a little.

If only that had been true of Perl 5 and Perl 4! Then again, I suppose that adding lexical variables, first-class functions, method dispatch, a library system, and true nested data structures is less of a leap than adding function signatures, a metamodel, multi dispatch, grammars, continuations, junctions, hyperoperators, pervasive laziness, ubiquitous blocks, and I've forgotten a few.

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Re^3: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 05, 2010 at 15:03 UTC
The one person who gets to choose the name disagrees. One person who disagrees gets to choose the name. Unfortunately for us all. Autocracies suck. What is the sound of Windows? Is it not the sound of a wall upon which people have smashed their heads... all the way through?	[reply]
Re^4: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 05, 2010 at 18:55 UTC
I have a lot of faith in the person who gets to decide what "Perl" is; after all, he's spent the last 22+ years designing a language family, leading implementation efforts, and developing a community around a project that's influenced my career and hobbies for the good in countless ways. Complaining that a Perl with multi-dispatch or function signatures or grammars or junctions or laziness or a metamodel built in or defaults that ask the compiler and runtime to report warnings and errors has a higher version number than a Perl that doesn't... well, I don't understand.	[reply]
Re^5: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 06, 2010 at 15:26 UTC
Even when the Person Who Decides admits he chose it based on hubris and continuing his legacy rather than a rational thought process? Are you such a fanboy that Larry is beyond critique for you? I admire him as much as the next perl coder would, but I don't believe he is incapable of making mistakes, and the name is the first mistake for this project.	[reply]
Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 20, 2010 at 20:52 UTC
Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 06, 2010 at 17:31 UTC
Re^7: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 06, 2010 at 22:24 UTC
Re^4: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by petdance (Parson) on Sep 28, 2010 at 14:26 UTC
If you'd like to create a language or project and then hand it over to a committee for their shepherding, then go right ahead, comrade. I'm curious if you have any examples of that having been done successfully. I sure can't think of any. xoxo, Andy	[reply]
Re^5: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Arunbear (Prior) on Oct 04, 2010 at 16:46 UTC
Common Lisp and Haskell come to mind. They may not be as widely used as Perl, but their implementations and communities could be taken as measures of success.	[reply]