Resetting PHP 6

Posted Mar 31, 2010 8:48 UTC (Wed) by roerd (guest, #64880)
In reply to: Resetting PHP 6 by Darkmere
Parent article: Resetting PHP 6

> Rakudo is something different, a Perl-like language, perhaps a steppingstone for future Perl technology. But it isn't Perl 6.0 to this member of the audience. It is Rakudo. Not Perl.

By that definition there will never be a Perl 6.0, because Perl 6 is a specification, not an implementation. Though of course you're right that at this time Rakudo can't be an implementation of Perl 6.0, because the specification is still a moving target.

Resetting PHP 6

Posted Mar 31, 2010 9:51 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]

Indeed, and this makes me quite sad. Because really, it feels as if Perl slipped off the map and into la-la-land. Not of the Duke Nukem Forever-style, but by setting the system up to a situation where you cannot deliver Perl6, because it's some immaterial beast that has yet to be able to exist.