Re^7: fibonacci numbers using subroutine?

Ah, but I don't live in the future. I live in the present. If I type 'perl' on the command line, the resulting program doesn't allow Perl6 syntax. The dozens of books I have with 'Perl' in the title don't describe Perl6 - only the ones that actually mention Perl6.

Note also that C++ has been around for 27 years. But there are only a handful of people who think C++ has as much claim on the name C as C itself has.

It'll be a long time before the general programming population no longer considers Perl to be a specific language, but a set of languages which share a few similarities.

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Re^8: fibonacci numbers using subroutine? by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 20, 2010 at 11:54 UTC
If I type 'perl' on the command line, the resulting program doesn't allow Perl6 syntax. As a matter of courtesy and common sense, we install Rakudo with the `perl6` executable name, to avoid name clashes with the Perl 5 compiler. Using that courtesy and common sense against us ist just being an asshole. Also if you don't care about Perl 6, why do you answer Perl 6 nodes at all? Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^8: fibonacci numbers using subroutine?
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 20, 2010 at 11:54 UTC

If I type 'perl' on the command line, the resulting program doesn't allow Perl6 syntax.

As a matter of courtesy and common sense, we install Rakudo with the perl6 executable name, to avoid name clashes with the Perl 5 compiler.

Using that courtesy and common sense against us ist just being an asshole.

Also if you don't care about Perl 6, why do you answer Perl 6 nodes at all?

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

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