joelberger

I do actually have a typewriter room and I love to go in there and appreciate the craftsmanship and history. Much as the other replier commented, there are two separate things in play here. I AM glad to have a website for the collection, I'm very glad to share the collection and I do enjoy thinking of new and interesting ways to make that history more present on the site.

The other side of it is my job. My personal mission was to display my typewriters, but my professional mission IS to build software. This post was me wrestling with the latter more than the former.

5^6 is 15625 and I think that would have been a better use of a future version number

It is built on an ioloop and has a special emphasis on making websockets and other streaming communications easy.

This is the point that I can't get anyone to see. So what if they provide history? They can take it away at any point too. So what have you accomplished?!

Perl 6 looks very promising. It was an attempt to brush up Perl 5 but became its own language with a very unfortunate name (read: Perl 6 will not replace Perl 5). It has some very interesting features, including the built-in concurrency primitives and the oft-mentioned grammars.

It is still very new (from a release time perspective). I don't expect there are very many large-scale real-world usages yet. I do wish that the Perl 6 community would spend a little more time on advocacy but thankfully there are several books on the way and hopefully that will start breaking out of the echo chamber and introducing the language to the masses.

Giving that one a try too. Thanks for the link.

And by the way, no I'm really not interested in generally helping with a language I don't use. What I object to is the Perl6 community siphoning off Perl5 oxygen and then using it to do nothing. I WAS willing to help ... in the moment that it would have helped. Its too late now, I'm not sure how Perl6 gets the spotlight again when it so perfectly eschewed it when one was waiting to shine on it.

I think the biggest problem Perl6 faces now is the perception that it is unfinished. This is mostly a problem of their own making. The language was in development for 15 years! In that time people got it drilled into their head that it wasn't done yet and likely would never be.

While this perception did hurt Perl5 it seems to have also hurt itself since reading this thread and seeing the number of people saying that it is "still in progress" or "still changing". This brings me to my second point, and the one that frustrates me more.

In fact Perl6 was released as stable 1.0 on Christmas of 2015. You could be excused for not noticing it. There were a few articles in a few technical journals in the months leading up tot he release but mostly the release day went by completely unnoticed and barely remarked upon.

Perl6 is a spectacular achievement! A language designed over the course of 15 years with the extreme flexibility and malleability to last 100 years more. This could have been a news story, a big release party, lots of hype, press releases. A language in the works for 15 years, it must be great right!?

Instead, to keep with an in-joke about "released by Christmas" it was released on Christmas day by developers who had family plans to a community that was busy with their own. I doubt many people know it happened. Indeed this thread seems proof of that.

Its not everyday that a 15 year project is completed. What an opportunity for exultation, and good press, wasted.