Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

On 11/23/2011 02:58 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: My response to the original poster was NOT to his first question, but in response to the rather acidic follow up. (His first email was answered by a respectful pointer to the position the perl6 developers have regarding 'the question'.) That is

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

Hello Wendell, On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:26:48 -0700 Wendell Hatcher wrote: > Thanks, so it isnt production ready like a release which would be an official > release of a new version of perl 5? I have the feeling after well over 5 > years this will never happened. I hope Perl 6 doesnt get seen as

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

On Wed, 2011-23-11 at 17:58 +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > In addition, let me say this. It has been over five years since perl6 > was first mooted and progress has been slow. But slow progress and > justifications for the slow progress are not excuses. Some things do > take a long time. >

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Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

Thanks. On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:40 AM, yary wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Wendell wrote: >> ... How do I remove myself from this user mail listing ... > > It's in the headers- List-Unsubscribe: > > > send an email to that address from the a

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Wendell wrote: > ... How do I remove myself from this user mail listing ... It's in the headers- List-Unsubscribe: send an email to that address from the account you've subscribed with

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

Thank you Daniel, I got that same feeling as well. The question ends up being lost in argumentative responses or personal comments. And, it is a legitimate question which I now know that Perl6 may not be ready for some time and will probably look at other languages such as Ruby to fill the voi

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

"Is Perl 6 production ready?" No. "Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment?" No, except for some fairly trivial and meaningless definitions of "production environment". I am not aware of anyone in this list or on IRC #perl6 who has made any claim to the contrary. If

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

I see things differently. I think that the question "is Perl 6 production ready?" is a meaningful and fairly important question. "Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment?" The question has as much (or more) to do with implementations than the spec, but that doesn't m

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

Well said. Also, the OP shouldn't confuse Perl 5 (the interpreter-defined language) with Perl 6 (a language definition for interpreters/compilers). The latter benefits from the fact that "Perl 5" is whatever "perl" says it is - for better or worse. So, asking if "Perl 6 is production ready" is l