kurilaintro -- description of Perl Kurila


NAME

kurilaintro -- description of Perl Kurila


DESCRIPTION

What is Perl Kurila?

Perl Kurila is a dialect of Perl. It is based upon Perl 5, mostly compatible. Unlike Perl 6 which is a completely new language, Perl Kurila is an evolution Perl 5. Currently they are almost the same, but this will change as Perl Kurila evolves.

Why?

Keep Perl 5 alive, and not let new development be drowned by its burden of legacy features. To have a more evolving language without being held back by backwards compatibility. Because of backward compatibility Perl 5 can only be extended by adding more, making it more complex. By creating a new dialect, we are free to have a more coherent Perl, with cleaner internals.

Is Perl Kurila a replacement for Perl 5?

No. There is a lot of Perl 5 code. You can probably convert Perl 5 code to Kurila without much problems, but if you are happy with Perl 5, you can stay using it. Both can be installed at the same time.

Major changes compared to Perl 5

Audience

Kurila has just started, so at the moment it is primary interesting for people interested in experiments with the Perl language. People interesting in continuing Perl 5, without all its legacy features, who don't want to let Perl 5 become a white dwarf.

Goals

Experimenting with the Perl language.
Removing ugly things.
Adding ugly things.
Changing old design decisions.
Readable, modifiable perl source.

Compatibility

Kurila is not intended to be compatible with Perl 5. There is the p5kurila convert script which does some basic conversion from Perl 5 to Perl Kurila, but it requires a modified perl5.

Development

Development is currently only done by Gerard Goossen. Using the git repository at git://dev.tty.nl/perl


SEE ALSO

the kurila121delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.21
the kurila120delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.20
the kurila119delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.19
the kurila118delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.18
the kurila117delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.17
the kurila116delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.16
the kurila115delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.15
the kurila114delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.14
the kurila113delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.13
the kurila112delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.12
the kurila111delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.11
the kurila110delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.10
the kurila19delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.9
the kurila18delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.8
the kurila17delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.7
the kurila16delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.6
the kurila15delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.5
the kurila14delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.4
the kurila13delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.3
the kurila02delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 0.2
the kurila01delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 0.1


AUTHOR

Gerard Goossen <gerard@tty.nl>

 kurilaintro -- description of Perl Kurila