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After 15 years of development, perl 6 will be officially launched as production ready software in 2015.
https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/get_ready_to_party/
Who knows, 2015 may also be the year of the linux desktop, unless HURD is also ready for prime time.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday November 08 2014, @07:31PM
CPAN is hardly immune to breakage. Several times I've had to roll back to old versions of CPAN modules to keep Perl programs functioning. The individuals who maintain modules on CPAN don't test their changes that carefully or thoroughly.
I've been looking forward to Perl 6. One of the coolest things about it may make much of CPAN unnecessary. Lot of CPAN modules are wrapper code for C libraries. Perl 6 is supposed to be a lot better at hooking directly into libraries.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday November 09 2014, @02:25AM
But CPAN will probably still be around, because, quite frankly, it was the one good thing Perl had going for it.
Put in a module to CPAN and its available everywhere. You could lock it down to specific versions of modules so some careless developer didn't break all of your stuff. You could also esily make your own local version so that something under active development didn't bite you. And of course you never had to run CPAN at all if you didn't want to.
But I never had any significant problem. It happened so infrequently, (three times that I recall) that it was never a big deal. Besides it was occasionally entertaining to see all the bitch-mail that could get generated.
I remember the early days of Spamassassin when it was totally written in Perl.
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