Larry Wall has issued his latest State of the Onion (we are up to 11 now). I'm glad he does these SotOs every once and a while—it re-engages me with Perl and makes me hopeful for the future.
But I have one issue: when, oh when, will my agony end? When will I be able to tell a sysadmin to install an RPM of Perl 6.0 so I can run some production Perl 6 code? According to Audrey Tang, it's Christmas ... but everyone refuses to specify which Christmas. And they grin when they do it. Which drives me a little crazy.
Frustration aside, they have made great progress with implementing Perl 6. It's so cool to see it working, and to see the syntax start to live in actual code. But it still isn't ready for production.
Could this be the Christmas we are all waiting for? Sadly I doubt it. I don't see any mention of a production-ready Perl 6 on the horizon. Which means we are looking at next Christmas? Sigh.
At least I have Moose.
2007/12/07
Perl 6, oh when will you end my agony?
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Perl 6 will be done when it's done. If you'd like to help, it will be done sooner. You don't have to know C, or Haskell, or Parrot, or Perl 6, or Perl 5 to help. Drop by #parrot on irc.perl.org or #perl6 on irc.freenode.net and ask "Hey, is there something I can do?"
If you'd like to help, it will be done sooner.
You know, I think I will :-) I've got to stand up a server here (new system for my on-line presence), but after that, I will stop by and see if I can pitch in somehow.
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