Re^3: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

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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
Are you such a fanboy that Larry is beyond critique for you? Ask him yourself if I have any problem telling him which of his decisions I think are wrong. He certainly has no trouble politely doing the same to me when necessary.	[reply]
Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 06, 2010 at 17:31 UTC
Wait, wait, wait... You're saying that there is Hubris involved in making decisions with Perl... OMG, I'm so glad you warned us. Larry must be stopped. The next thing you know he'll be foisting his Laziness and Impatience on us. Just imagine how detrimental those ideas would have been to earlier versions of Perl.	[reply]
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]