Star Perl 6 to Break Compatibility, Support Other Interpreters
Linked by David Adams on Sun 7th Dec 2008 02:03 UTC, submitted by HugoS
General Development Version 6 of the popular Perl programming language will not be compatible with previous versions, but will open up a new world of custom "languages" and interpreters, according to its founder Larry Wall. Wall and his co-developers are doing with Perl 6 -- starting again. "It will break backward compatibility [but] in order to simplify it we have to get rid of old cruft, particularly the regular expression cruft," Wall said. "A lot of the unreadability of Perl is related to the regular expression syntax â€" and we didn't do that, we got it from Unix. It needs to be end-of-lifed."
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tene
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2008-07-24

And the planned release date is? The "release goals" you've been meeting are like the circle cast by a lantern in the dark. No guarantee of getting out of the forest. You need a map and some landmarks.


Did you even look at the roadmap I linked? The planned release date for 1.0 (Stable API for language implementations) is March 17. Six months after that is 1.5, our "Mostly Feature Complete" release. Six months after that is 2.0, "Production Ready"

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