From e2cea88ffedc4a3ad0c2bd3d9cab120ade422b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Buetow Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 09:34:12 +0100 Subject: add link - what happened to perl 7? --- gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'gemfeed') diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi index 55cafd20..755d9b06 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ So it means that Perl and Raku now exist in parallel. They influence each other, The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas "use strict; use warnings; use signatures;" and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) repetition. => https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/ Announcing Perl 7 +=> http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use "use v7;") ## Why use Perl as there are better alternatives? -- cgit v1.2.3