[mkl]

Read the first two words of my comment again.

We're talking about the choice of Python for ML when CUDA came along, nearly 20 years ago. Upthread, alaties said:

> Around 2007, the main competitors in the scripting space had a lot of issues: [...]

> Perl [...] unstable

RadiozRadios replied:

> Huh? Please elaborate.

I did.

In 2007, Perl 6 was not Raku, it was intended to be the next major version of Perl. But it had been in development for ~7 years already, couldn't be relied on or predicted, and had become a bit of a joke. Since Perl 6 was still supposed to be the future of Perl, in 2007 Perl very much seemed unstable and unsuitable as a foundation for ML research.

[anthk]

I agree on Perl's choice. But Perl5 was granted as an stable platform, kinda like AWK, pretty much unlike Perl6, which wasn't the future of the current Perl5 at all, except for the hype.