Larry Wall gave a presentation on October 5, 2015 at the San Francisco Exploratorium describing and demonstrating the release of Perl 6.0.0 that will occur at Christmas this year. I have heard that a video is forthcoming, but in the meantime, notes of his talk are available.
To be honest, I haven't taken much interest in the Perl 6 project from the beginning. Perl 5 has continued to develop and become a more and more robust tool. However, I have always appreciated Larry Wall's taste in language design. If you devote the time required to master the concepts they embody, the Perl syntax that is so often derided by those who do not, appears elegant and tasteful.
The notes from this talk inspire me to spend some time with the new language once it is released. In particular, this section:
There was a moment in the presentation when it seemed like Perl 6 may be the language that Larry had always wanted to write. "My wife observes that when we did Perl 5, we had to incorporate a lot of recognizable culture," he told the audience. "But with Perl 6, we now have street cred to design things the way they ought to be. The hardest thing is waiting for the right person to come along, who understands how to implement it. If we'd shipped any time in the last 15 years, we might thoroughly regret it now."
What do the rest of you think?
