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Perl 5.16.0 releasedPerl 5.16.0 releasedPosted May 22, 2012 8:31 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Perl 5.16.0 released by theophrastus Parent article: Perl 5.16.0 released
It was originally planned for Perl 6 to be the next version of Perl - with a compatibility mode for running existing Perl code on the Parrot virtual machine - but that plan has been abandoned as too difficult.
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Perl 5.16.0 released Posted May 22, 2012 11:05 UTC (Tue) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] that plan has been abandoned as too difficult Really? Is that the official word, that Perl 6 really won't be compatible with Perl 5? Are there plans for automated or semi-automated Perl 5-to-6 translation tools? Without that, I believe Perl 6 is dead.
Perl 5.16.0 released Posted May 22, 2012 11:57 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/2006/08/msg...
Translation tools would be possible, of course, but I don't know of anyone working on them at the moment. (Perl 5's syntax and semantics make such tools trickier than they would be for, say, Python or C#.)
Perl 5.16.0 released Posted May 22, 2012 12:29 UTC (Tue) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link] From that email: Lots of good came out of Ponie, just not the good things we expected. A number of very talented hackers are currently exploring multiple strategies to enable most Perl 5 code to run seamlessly along side Perl 6 in Parrot. Folks have already demonstrated a proof-of-concept Parrot VM embedded in the Perl 5 runtime. Work is underway on a Perl 5 to Perl 6 translator and the existing Perl 6 compiler on Parrot is the proof of concept for a similar implementation of a "regularized" Perl 5. At this point, it wouldn't be reasonable to bless any one right way forward but each of these techniques (and possibly others) could play a part in whatever "5 on 6" scheme we end up with. No matter what happens, we're committed to making your Perl 5 code play well with new Perl 6 code. The Perl 6 FAQ still says that there will be a translator and a compability mode.
Perl 5.16.0 released Posted May 22, 2012 13:59 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
No, that's certainly not in any way official or final. Interop is difficult and the Perl 6 implementors are very understaffed. It's just the usual "noone has gotten around to it".
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