On: Interview: Larry Wall

[rrss1122]

I started out learning Perl. This was when 5.10 was the newest version which was pretty much forever ago.

I just went to look up Perl 5.10 release notes, and they billed it as "the first major upgrade... in over five years."

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2007/perl-5.10.0.html

I would have loved to keep using Perl in a professional setting but even when I first learned it, it was already forever between two major updates. Perl was fun to use. It's just too bad everyone moved on.

[bwigfield → rrss1122]

http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1757/updated-visualizing-p...

This have gotten much better and perl 5 has great momentum these days. There was sort of a changing of the guard as a lot of the old guys moved on to perl6 or other things. However nowadays there is lots of fresh blood moving the project alone real nice like.

[wumpus → rrss1122]

That was the nadir of perl releases. Starting in 2010, they've released a new major version each year.

The first serious perl compiler was just released a week ago: http://rperl.org/

Some people moved on, some people stayed.

[rurban → wumpus]

How do come to the opinion that rperl is the first "serious perl compiler"? It certainly is not.

[rrss1122 → wumpus]

I hope with Perl 6, some people will also come back.