Perl is dead

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Thu Dec 4 11:44:43 GMT 2008


Renaming Perl 6 to something completely different, and renaming perl
5.12 to perl 6.


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guilty of starting a similar discussion thread in the past I feel
> entitled to ask - what positive outcome would you expect from this
> thread?
>
> Cheers,
> Zbigniew
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Ovid <publiustemp-londonpm at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----
>>
>>> From: Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com>
>>
>>> >> In response to Ovid's post on use.perl:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html
>>> >
>>> > Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list?
>>>
>>>
>>> There weren't on the original list. Fixed.
>>>
>>> Perl at least kicks the ass of the upstarts.
>>
>> Until you look at a graph of relative job growth.  For Ruby, Perl, PHP and Python, they're all trending up.  We're flat.
>>
>> http://is.gd/abyq
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ovid
>> --
>> Buy the book         - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/
>> Tech blog            - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
>> Twitter              - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl
>> Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Zbigniew Lukasiak
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