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<a href="//use.perl.org/~masak/">masak</a> <br> (email not shown publicly)<br><a href="http://masak.org/carl" rel="nofollow">http://masak.org/carl</a><br><hr>Been programming Perl since 2001. Found Perl 6 somewhere around 2004, and fell in love. Now developing November (a Perl 6 wiki), Druid (a Perl 6 board game), pls (a Perl 6 project installer), GGE (a regex engine), and Yapsi (a Perl 6 implementation). Heavy user of and irregular committer to Rakudo.
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<h3>How Perl 6 could kill us all!</h3>
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<div class="intro"><p>People's minds weave stories. Stories weave people's minds.</p><p>My mind is pretty tied to the Perl 6 story nowadays, and I haven't minded the
Perl 5 story much. Until this week, that is. Last Sunday, I backlogged over a
discussion of someone coming in from #perl asking people on #perl6 why Perl 6
claimed to be Perl <a href="http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/39861" rel="nofollow">when it
clearly isn't</a>. My resulting blog post basically asked the #perl people to
stop telling outsiders biased things.</p><p>A few days later, mst++ <a href="http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/39889" rel="nofollow">grabbed me on IRC</a> and informed
me in what ways the blog post I'd written was biased by <em>my</em> views. In
particular, these two statements from my post are less-than-objective:</p><div class="quote"><p>Surely no-one in the Perl community wants to confuse newcomers. Yet
that is clearly what happened here.</p></div><div class="quote"><p>Whatever replies emma got, she did not get the balanced views that the
#perl6 folks gave.</p></div><p>As mst pointed out, the post comes from the assumption that <em>my</em> views
are balanced. It does — I bet there's a psychology term for that kind of
phenomenon, where people <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot" rel="nofollow">unconsciously assume that
their own assumptions are correct</a>.</p><p>A more useful view to take is perhaps that there's a Perl 5 story and a Perl 6
story. Had emma got the Perl 6 story from #perl6 before she got the Perl 5
story from #perl, she probably wouldn't have become annoyed at the people on
#perl6 the way she did. But that doesn't mean that the #perl people were
spreading untruths or badmouthing Perl 6. It could be as simple as emma asking
"Is Perl 6 different from Perl?", and getting a "yes". (Well, it is
different.) According to mst, that's pretty much what happened.</p><p>Then I learned a bunch of interesting things about the Perl 5 story, things
which I would probably have figured out by myself sooner, had I not been so
influenced by the Perl 6 story already. Here I make a partly vain attempt to
summarize the Perl 5 take on Perl 6:</p><div class="quote"><ul>
<li>There's Perl 5, and it's pretty awesome. It's fast, well-tested, and has the
CPAN, which rocks. People who weave the Perl 5 story are generally not
sitting around waiting for Perl 6, nor are they particularly interested in
making it arrive sooner.</li><li>From the outside, and generalizing, Perl 6 looks like a big failure. It
hasn't "arrived" yet, and in the process it has generated massive amounts of
bad PR for itself and for Perl in general. Parts of the bad PR come from not
arriving yet, parts of it come from the version thing.</li><li>The version thing, in essence, is this: 6 is larger than
5. <em>Everyone</em> knows what this means; releases with bigger version
numbers (especially major ones) are better than, and are meant to replace,
releases with smaller version numbers. Perl 5 replaced Perl 4, which
replaced Perl 3, etc. Perl 6 lambdacamels don't think much about this, but
Perl 5 folks fielding questions from outsiders about Perl 6 sure do.</li><li>To make matters worse, those Perl 6 people are actually <em>encouraging</em>
the delusion that Perl 6 is replacing Perl 5. They have early alpha releases
out, and they're making statements about Perl 6 being the "next version of
Perl", as if they were standing there with the finished product already.</li><li>When people try what the Perl 6 people have, the find it slow, buggy, and in
almost total lack of libraries. If these people are outsiders, they might well
associate those bad things with "Perl", and never get to trying out Perl 5,
the "real" Perl.</li></ul></div><p>After putting the pieces together, I understand a little better where the, um,
strong dislike may be coming from.</p><p>But it's worse than that. This is a conflict that, assuming us Perl 6 people
are really onto something, will only get worse. Perl 6 was conceived at a time
when Perl 5 was at a slump, but Perl 5 is not at a slump anymore. It's <a href="http://mdk.per.ly/2009/08/06/perl-is-alive-kicking-and-stronger-than-ever/" rel="nofollow">alive
and kicking, and stronger than ever</a>. Large parts of its community do
<em>not</em> consider Perl 6 the hot next version. They consider Perl 6 a
threat, more or less. If and when Perl 6 takes off, it will be a bigger
threat. A threat made worse by the Perl 6 story, as it was once woven: that
Perl 6 is the obvious successor to Perl 5.</p><p>I think it's time to try and mitigate the conflict now. I understand the best
we can do from the perspective of the Perl 5 story is to change the name "Perl
6" to something else. I don't see that happening, and <a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2009-11-13#i_1725354" rel="nofollow">neither does
Larry</a>. But what we <em>can</em> change, and right away, is the dissipation
of the idea that Perl 6 is the next major version of Perl. We should be focusing
on consistently telling another story; something like this:</p><p>Perl 5 and Perl 6 are two languages <strong>in the Perl family, but of
different lineages.</strong> </p><p>It won't entirely remove the damage that the "6 > 5" phenomenon causes the
Perl 5 crowd, but it will at least mitigate it. Also it shows some serious
good will from the Perl 6 side.</p><p>What we do <em>not</em> want is a conflict, where the Perl 5 community feels
the need to assert itself against the impostor Perl 6, which threatens it
simply by being Perl 6. "Rewrite" does not mean "overwrite". Perl 5 isn't
going away anytime soon. This is actually something we say on the channel a
lot, but it hasn't been evident in our PR.</p><p>The Perl 6 community is taking steps to rectify that. Where the <a href="http://perl6.org/" rel="nofollow">perl6.org</a> page used to say "Perl 6, the next major
version of the Perl programming language", it now says "Perl 6, the spunky
little sister of Perl 5. Like her world-famous big sister, Perl 6 intends to
carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community." With this re-wording,
things are suddenly much more on equal grounds.</p><p>While I'm posting this, <a href="http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/f_ck-perl-6/" rel="nofollow">mst++ has made a blog post</a> in his inimitable style over
at his blog, where he defends the Perl 6 story to his peers. I've read it, and
while it does contain the usual amount of four-letter words, it also makes
points very similar to this post's, but in a sort of mirror-like Perl 5 universe.
Understanding needs to flow in from both sides in this matter. <a href="http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/f_ck-perl-6/" rel="nofollow">You should
read it, too.</a> </p><p>In an ideal world, we will have Perl 5 and a mature Perl 6 existing side by
side, not feeling threatened by each other, and competing on cool tech. The
Perl 5 and Perl 6 communities could recognize each other's Perl version as
Perl, go to the same conferences (as we do already), and feel confident
about the other group's assertions of superiority, because they're so clearly
misguided, while still perfectly fine individuals, of course.</p><p>Let's try to steer in that direction, and not towards mutual assured
destruction. That's just mad.</p></div>
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