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Will this succeed? Who knows.

Head on over to the monastery for some more input on the matter:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=808015


>     I come from a background of 30+ years of business application
>     development in a wide variety of technical environments. Now retired I
>     still dabble in developing software for some 'not for profit' clubs
etc.
>     I discovered Perl only recently and it was like coming home - the
entire
>     environment and philosophy fitted like a glove.
>     Then I decided to have a look at Perl 6. This is a ten year old project
>     - and the future of Perl - so I should be able to do something real in
>     terms of developing a real life application. That means database
access,
>     GUI interface etc etc. That shouldn't be a problem - you are supposed
to
>     be able to access Perl5 CPAN modules from within Perl6 - and there's
>     some nice examples shown on the web using PUGS. First problem - Rakudo
>     seems to be the only really active version of Perl 6 - that's fine -
the
>     whole concept of Parrot seems excellent - but hang on - you can't
access
>     Perl 5 CPAN modules like DBI and Tk from Rakudo - and despite extensive
>     searching there doesn't seem to be a binary windows version of PUGS
>     anywhere any more (remembering I am an application developer, not a
>     language developer - I don't want to get into compiling Haskell source
>     code etc). That leads to the second problem - so many web-sites, so out
>     of date, so many broken links.  It seems that new Perl6 specific
modules
>     are being developed for Rakudo rather than the PUGS style 'use
>     Perl5:whatever' - if it could be done in PUGS, why not in Rakudo?
>     I have gone back to my Perl5 environment (using Padre of course) and
>     will be very happy with it - but I feel very disappointed with the
>     apparent inability for Perl6 to actually deliver a usable environment
>     for real world application development. Its almost as if the Perl6
>     project is simply a project for people who like to dabble in language
>     development rather than achieving a real deliverable to the wider Perl
>     community.
>     I apologise if these comments are seen as offensive to those people who
>     are probably putting in an enormous effort into this development. What
I
>     am saying is simply - this project is 10 years old - isn't it
reasonable
>     to expect a usable result?

I don't think you're alone. I personally see Perl6 as sort of a lab
experiment, research into where Perl might be in still a few years from now.
Perl 5 is still developing, indeed a lot of good ideas have made it from that
lab specimen and into the living creature that we've all come to love :-)

Now... asbestos underwear, if you please? Thank you.

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Andreas Lund (floyd at atc.no)
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