It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-21 12:48 (#2SPW) It's time for the Perlers to do the same thing. Instead of extended Perl 5 for decades, it's time for Perl 7. Perl 6 is a failure, and always will be. The sooner the Perl community admits this, the sooner Perl can move into the future. Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 2, Interesting) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 11:02 (#2SR3) If Perl 7 did nothing other than deal easily with UTF-8 characters, that would be good enough and well-worth it. Non unicode support is becoming a deathknell for a lot of applications, and perl should be smart enough to deal with things like this by now. I also wouldn't shed a tear if they decided to give up on some of the retrofit OO stuff they've added on - not sure it was ever a good fit or worth it, and if you want object oriented you can always use python instead. Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-22 19:46 (#2SSG) That's a not-so-subtle Slashcode dig, isn't it. :) Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 21:03 (#2SSH) Ha ha! Hadn't even thought of that, but you're absolutely right. But more personally, I've had a hell of a time with some scripts just because of UTF8 issues. Annoying.
Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 2, Interesting) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 11:02 (#2SR3) If Perl 7 did nothing other than deal easily with UTF-8 characters, that would be good enough and well-worth it. Non unicode support is becoming a deathknell for a lot of applications, and perl should be smart enough to deal with things like this by now. I also wouldn't shed a tear if they decided to give up on some of the retrofit OO stuff they've added on - not sure it was ever a good fit or worth it, and if you want object oriented you can always use python instead. Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-22 19:46 (#2SSG) That's a not-so-subtle Slashcode dig, isn't it. :) Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 21:03 (#2SSH) Ha ha! Hadn't even thought of that, but you're absolutely right. But more personally, I've had a hell of a time with some scripts just because of UTF8 issues. Annoying.
Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-22 19:46 (#2SSG) That's a not-so-subtle Slashcode dig, isn't it. :) Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 21:03 (#2SSH) Ha ha! Hadn't even thought of that, but you're absolutely right. But more personally, I've had a hell of a time with some scripts just because of UTF8 issues. Annoying.
Re: It's time for Perl 7! (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 21:03 (#2SSH) Ha ha! Hadn't even thought of that, but you're absolutely right. But more personally, I've had a hell of a time with some scripts just because of UTF8 issues. Annoying.