{"id":17328,"date":"2019-08-31T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17328"},"modified":"2019-08-31T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:24:30","slug":"is-perl-6-being-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17328","title":{"rendered":"Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The BBC, the world&#8217;s largest broadcaster, had Perl everywhere. They decided to ditch it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mongodb.com\/blog\/post\/the-mongodb-perl-driver-is-being-deprecated\">MongoDB claims that their clients aren&#8217;t developing any new projects in Perl<\/a>, so they&#8217;re ditching Perl 5 support. Other companies are continuing this trend and this is, as potential clients have told me, because they&#8217;re tired of waiting for Perl 6. They <em>think<\/em> Perl 6 is the successor to Perl 5 and given the name, it makes perfect sense. Combine that with the negative press about Perl 5 and you get into &#8220;nobody got fired for buying IBM&#8221; territory, but <code class=\"prettyprint\"><span class=\"pln\">s<\/span><span class=\"pun\">\/<\/span><span class=\"typ\">Perl<\/span><span class=\"pun\">\/<\/span><span class=\"pln\">$other_language<\/span><span class=\"pun\">\/<\/span><span class=\"pln\">g<\/span><\/code>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.perl.org\/users\/ovid\/2019\/08\/is-perl-6-being-renamed.html\">Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? | Ovid [blogs.perl.org]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC, the world&#8217;s largest broadcaster, had Perl everywhere. They decided to ditch it. MongoDB claims that their clients aren&#8217;t developing any new projects in Perl, so they&#8217;re ditching Perl 5 support. Other companies are continuing this trend and this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[984,713,171,245],"class_list":["post-17328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-coding-practices","tag-language","tag-perl","tag-version-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17329,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions\/17329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}