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answer  Re: alpha/beta perl6 versions  by masak (Scribe) on Nov
28, 2009 at 11:36 UTC ( #809872=note: print w/ replies, xml )
Need Help??  in reply to alpha/beta perl6 versions  i wonder why
there is no alpha or beta version for perl6  If you think of the
developer releases of Rakudo as somewhere between 'alpha' and
'beta', I'd say that your expectations will be about right. It's
just that we don't tend to use the terms 'alpha' or 'beta' as
such when describing Perl 6 implementations. Let me refer to two
blog posts by pmichaud++, who describes the situation much
better than I can.  why there is no normal distribution for perl
6 like the distribution of perl5  Actually, where there's one
normative Perl 5 implementation, that has never been the case
with Perl 6, which is defined not by an implementation but by a
specification. Rather than one implementation being 'official',
all implemen