Perl 6 Developers: Language Ready To Use

December 24th, the official blog on Perl 6 development news has a congratulatory post. The developers congratulated everyone on the upcoming Catholic Christmas, and with the fact that the so long expected maturity of the language finally took place. In fact, the language is ready for use in work projects, and the developers promise nothing more to change significantly.

It has been 28 years since the release of the first version of Perl, more than 20 years since the release of the most popular version of Perl 5 at this time. As Larry Wall jokes, the creator of the language and the leader of its development, the 6th version may sometime replace the 5th version - in about 40 years.
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The version of Perl 6 was announced more than 10 years ago - on Amazon you can also buy a book about this “soon leaving” language published in 2004. The development time can be explained by the fact that Perl 6 is, in fact, a new language based on the 5th version. And although some argue that 6-ka differs from 5-th by nothing more than C ++ from C , after all, the ideology in Perl 6 has evolved enough to call it more modern language.

Larry Wall hopes that teachers at institutes will be able, finally, using the same language, to teach students different programming styles - functional, procedural and object.

Perl 6 logo chose a merry butterfly. As (half in jokingly) explained Wall at a conference in October of this year , this was done specifically to make the language attractive for 7-year-old girls. As an example of good advertising for PL among children, he recommended looking at Python.

Wall noted that the main thing that unites the two versions of the language is the community of like-minded programmers, who want languages ​​to be more or less interchangeable. For example, for Perl 6 there is a module Inline :: Perl5, and for Perl 5 there is a module Inline :: Perl6.