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Add Perl 6 as a language on the profile page
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:09 am
by Mertanon
Hello!
Can someone add Perl 6 as one of the languages one can in the profile?
Re: Add Perl 6 as a language on the profile page
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:41 pm
by hk
Perl is there, isn't it?
Or should we go adding all versions of Python, Java, Delphi, dialects of Pascal or whatever?
Re: Add Perl 6 as a language on the profile page
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:22 pm
by Mertanon
I know, but Perl and Perl 6 are quite different.
Re: Add Perl 6 as a language on the profile page
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:13 pm
by hk
All versions of BASIC are grouped together under BASIC.
And you can't deny that archaic versions of BASIC like GWBasic are quite different from Visual Basic 1 through.. and on another note VB.NET.
The same holds here, I'm sorry.
Otherwise the list becomes endless.
On a broader scale: quite often next versions of a programming language are "quite different". However, we classify them under one name.
Re: Add Perl 6 as a language on the profile page
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:39 am
by euler
Ditto.
The general point being that newer revisions (indicated by the incremental version number) build on the recognised structure and syntax of the base language. If they ever get to the point where a complete overhaul is performed so that the fundamental differences between it and its mother language are greater than the similarities then they would rename the language; cf. Pascal to Delphi or C/C++ to Java and C#. So if when Perl 6 becomes production ready (it is still in development and has been since 2000!) it is so different to previous incarnations that they give it a new name then we will be sure to add it.
Also I took this from the front page of the Perl community's website: "Perl 6 is a sister language, part of the Perl family." (
http://www.perl.org/)