Comments on: Perl 6 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/perl-6/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Tue, 07 May 2013 11:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chromatic http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/perl-6/#comment-9030 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:52:14 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1594#comment-9030 Read Guido’s posts to the Python development mailing list from 2000 sometime. They’re all part of the public record.

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/perl-6/#comment-9028 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:16:53 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1594#comment-9028 Hi Robert,

As a Python outsider, it still looks as though a choice between incompatible version 2 and 3 is not straightforward. What if I want to use Django for example?

Having said that, they have made an infinitely better job of the transition so far.

]]> By: Robert http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/perl-6/#comment-9027 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:05:35 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=1594#comment-9027 I don’t think that is a true case with Python 3. Python 3 was an actual pie-in-the-sky joke from Guido and then he actually said “lets do it”. They laid out a 5 year plan for Python 3 adoption and they are about half way through it. The bigger projects are just now starting to lay down their Python 3 plans.

Those who think Python 3 is a “wholesale replacement” are right in a sense but not in the Perl 5 -> Perl 6 sense. Python 3 only changes a “few” things and is more of an incremental improvement (and yes I think it is that).

I don’t think the two camps are the same at all, except that people don’t like to wait.

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