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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:06:46PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: > Eric Raymond's book-in-development ``The Art of Unix Programming'' says > this about the future of Perl: > > > Perl usage has grown respectably, but the language itself has been stagnant > > for two years or more. > > Bah. Looks like my Perl5-Porters summaries have been completely in vain. :) yeah, he's full of BS here. > > If that other is Perl 6, I don't think we're stalled, are we? Language design > is waiting on Larry to produce the spec, and internals design is going on > quietly but steadily. We're in the design stage. That'll probably last a while > because scripting languages and interpreters aren't easy things to design, and > are even harder to get right. Well, sometimes I think things *are* stalled. I'm thinking of updating my book to perl 6, and maybe writing a new one, except that it is very difficult to start, let alone convince an editor to put the time and effort into such a project if you can't even point to a spec. And - correct me if I'm wrong - but there isn't even a status available on how far the spec process is coming. I'm not saying that every day or even every week - but once a month might be nice. Last time I heard, he was going through 'topic by topic' and was going to release verdicts bit-by-bit. But that was on Dec. 20th. EdThread Next