Perl.com: The State of Perl

“A colleague of mine recently asked me about Perl’s future.
Specifically, he wondered if we have any tricks up our sleeves to
compete against today’s two most popular platforms: .NET and Java.
Without a second’s hesitation, I repeated the same answer I’ve used
for years when people ask me if Perl has a future:

“Perl certainly is alive and well. The Perl 6 development team
is working very hard to define the next version of the Perl
language. Another team of developers is working hard on Parrot, the
next-generation runtime engine for Perl 6. Parrot is being designed
to support dynamic languages like Perl 6, but also Python, Ruby and
others. Perl 6 will also support a transparent migration of
existing Perl 5 code.

“Then I cheerfully continued with this addendum:

“Fotango is sponsoring one of their developers, Arthur Bergman,
to work on Ponie, the reimplementation of Perl 5.10 on top of
Parrot…”

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