OSCON day 2 (NewsForge)
The highlight of the evening was Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion report. Ostensibly meant to be an update on the state of Perl, Wall's talk was about 90% entertainment and 10% status report on Perl 6. Wall noted that Perl was first released in 1987, and says that as Perl is approaching its 20th birthday, the language is 'growing up.' Though the Perl team has been reluctant to give timelines for Perl 6 to be finished, Wall says that we should have 'most of Perl 6' by Christmas. Though it probably won't be a final release, it looks as if Perl 6 might just be ready by the time the language turns 20."
Posted Jul 26, 2006 21:14 UTC (Wed)
by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
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I talked to Larry last month at another conference. He says that when he says things like that, he doesn't specify *which* Christmas ....
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Posted Jul 30, 2006 1:53 UTC (Sun)
by chromatic (guest, #26207)
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This time, he did say this Christmas.
> Wall says that we should have 'most of Perl 6' by Christmas.OSCON day 2 (NewsForge)
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