[OSDC Israel] Why Perl6?

[Gabor Szabo]

On 3/2/06, Roman Yakovenko <roman.yakovenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> All I wanted is to hear reasons to
> learn that new language. Take for example Microsoft, they changed Managed C++
> to CLI\C++. Do you know how much it will cost to the industry? But I
> have an article,
> from Herb Sutter that explains what has been changed and why I should
> switch to it.
> If you have some resources like this - I'd like to read it.

There are many resources regarding this outside and I am sure some of the list
members will explain many other things much better than I do so let me
say only a few words.

It is open source. Noone will take away Perl5 and as long as there is enough
interest it will be maintained.
There are many people who are still using Perl4.
Perl5 came out about 12 years ago and the language was (mostly)
backward compatible
but still there are companies that for whatever reason did not want to
replace the interpreter
with the new one.
So Perl5 will remain.
You can view Perl6 as a new language with 10,000 extensions on CPAN.

Gabor