Perl 6

[rcjordan]

http://perl6.guide/

http://p6weekly.wordpress.com/

[Brad]

People are still coding in Perl?  I wonder if Perl is harder to hack than PHP for the average script kiddie?

[BoL]

Never attempted to learn it, Python seems to fill a role that Perl once did early on in the web.

[littleman]

>People are still coding in Perl?

Yeah, us dinosaurs.  It is still my language of choice for scripting.  I actually use it all the time to automate tasks.

[rcjordan]

Wtf?

Perl 6 is a completely different language from Perl 5, and also incompatible. To some extent, the Perl 6 community of developers is different than that of Perl 5. Perl 6 is not meant to displace Perl 5.

http://perl-begin.org/learn/perl6/

[littleman]

Yeah, you'd think they would have given it a different name.  Its my understanding that Ruby started life as a "better perl".

[rcjordan]

In your current perl coding, have you upped the server to perl5, LM?

[littleman]

Do you mean perl6? No, still using 5, I guess I've been using 5 for 14 years now.

[JasonD]

I purchased perl6.com in about 2000. I sold it last year. It amortized very well.

Perl6 was meant to be a language of languages. You could code in any language and it would work. The reality is vastly different to the intentions though.

Perl 5.8 is still the most amazing tool in any dev's hands.

[Damian]

Another dinosaur here, using perl5.8 every day  
Never bothered to learn PHP or other languages.