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The State of Perl Development

The State of Perl Development 01/16/2004 11:05 AM

Perl 6 and Parrot do not represent our future, but rather our long-term insurance policy. When Perl 6 was announced, the Perl 5 implementation was already about seven years old. Core developers were leaving perl5-porters and not being replaced. (We didn't know it at the time, but this turned out to be a temporary lull. Thankfully.) The source code is quite complex, and very daunting to new developers. It was and remains unclear whether Perl can sustain itself as an open source project for another ten or twenty years if virtually no one can hack on the core interpreter. Today, over three years later, the Perl development community is quite active writing innovative software that solves the problems real people and businesses face today. However, the innovation and inspiration is not entirely where we thought it would be. Instead of seeing the new language and implementation driving a new wave of creativity, we are seeing innovation in the libraries and modules available on CPAN -- code you can use right now with Perl 5, a language we all know and love. -- Adam Turoff An interesting and reflective survey of Perl, CPAN and its possible future directions. Some well known PHP developers pour scorn on CPAN because the quality of contributors is uneven, but as Adam points out, its diversity is a core strength of Perl.




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