4 ms·
Just keep that codebase in Perl 5? Perl 6 isn't a replacement for Perl 5. It's a whole new language. Perl 5 is still actively maintained and used.
by zoffix222 11y ago
Just keep that codebase in Perl 5? Perl 6 isn't a replacement for Perl 5. It's a whole new language. Perl 5 is still actively maintained and used.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Perl 6 isn't a replacement for Perl 5. It's a whole new language. ...with an exceedingly poorly chosen name. (Which is not to diminish how good it is as a language.)
- kbenson 11y agoI don't think anyone disagrees with that at this point, but hindsight is 20/20. I personally wouldn't mind if there was a slow shift towards using the current main implementation's name (Rakudo) or some other (NG Perl?) for the language down the line, but I think doing so before release would just make every problem worse, including Perl 5's ("Oh, Perl 6 is no more? It failed? I knew it would... Perl is a dead end.")