[m0nty]

> The perl community have been searching for the best way to overcome the perception that "perl is dead"

Release. Perl. 6.

[larard]

"perl6 is another language in the same family as perl5. It is not meant to replace or succeed perl5. They are incompatible yet complementary."

The success of perl 5 is in no way determined by perl 6. Perl 5 development continues unabated. As jrockway says here, "Think of Perl 6 as Perl 5's Clojure".

Though my personal opinion is that the naming, and the confusion it creates, sucks and makes it really easy to think that perl (5) is dead because perl (6) hasn't been released yet.

[adam-_-]

It's a shame it got called Perl 6... Perl 5 has been cracking along and is by no means stale: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/ms...

[chromatic]

Since the announcement of Perl 6 10 years ago, there have been fifteen stable releases of Perl 5.

There have been 31 releases of Rakudo Perl 6. Pugs had half a dozen.

What more do you want?

[elblanco]

I want to be able to go to http://www.perl.org/get.html and see two links: download Perl 5.10.xxx, download Perl 6.x.

[draegtun]

That would be a very good idea indeed.

In meantime for Rakudo Perl6 the direct link is: http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo

[mishmash]

Some Perl 6 eBooks.

[tene]

http://github.com/perl6/book/

[mishmash]

Thanks, I have this and it's great, but it'd be a bit nicer to have something a little more fleshed-out.

Looking forward to Learning Perl 6 when it starts to come along.

[chromatic]

I'm talking to Pete Krawczyk about "Perl 6 for Perl 5 Programmers". Is that more what you have in mind?