Re^2: Perl and the Future

I have been the Perl Developer for last 8 years. I believe the Perl Community is not providing any professional certifications. It could have been a great tool to market the language. Still believe Perl is great language but lacks the marketing skills. Also Perl 5.000 was released on October 17, 1994. It has been almost 20 years Perl Community has been releasing the maintenance releases, World had been Waiting eagerly for Perl 6.

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Re^3: Perl and the Future by Anonymous Monk on Mar 31, 2015 at 08:45 UTC
professional certifications Cerifications for Perl maintenance releases No, they're more than just maintenance releases, read the `perl5*delta`s and enjoy the new features. Also some great new modules have come along - Moose, Mojolicious, etc. Sorry, but if you believe the things you are writing, I suggest that it possible that it is you who hasn't been keeping up-to-date, not Perl.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl and the Future by einhverfr (Friar) on Apr 16, 2015 at 12:14 UTC
It has been almost 20 years Perl Community has been releasing the maintenance releases, World had been Waiting eagerly for Perl 6. I see why people get that impression. However, when you get down to it, Perl 6 (which I understand to be expected to be out this year) really is a different language. I am not sure whether I like it or not (it definitely has a second system feel to it). Yes, Perl 5 came out just over 20 years ago. But the last 5 years have been quite different than what came before. Perl 5 is a great language (I also like REBOL btw), and one of the real strengths is the fact that it has the flexibility to move between OO and other paradigms quite easily. Not everything is an object like it is in Python, Javascript, or Perl 6.... I don't see Perl 6 supplanting Perl 5 any more than C++ has supplanted C. Yes they will have different niches but.... more likely they will grow up together,	[reply]