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>>clearly Perl5/6 has been an even bigger mess The migration path from Perl 5 to 6 is like going from C to C++ or D. Basically there is no 'migration path'. C

by kamaal 11y ago

>>clearly Perl5/6 has been an even bigger mess The migration path from Perl 5 to 6 is like going from C to C++ or D. Basically there is no 'migration path'. C didn't go away after C++, neither did the whole rewrite C applications to C++,Perl 5 is not going to go way after Perl 6. >> because they haven't even managed to release the interpreter, much less start moving to it. They released a beta and production release is coming out this christmas. Clearly you have a lot catching up to do.

jlarocco 11y ago
> Clearly you have a lot catching up to do. TBH, I'm not planning on catching up. I skim through the Perl6 articles that get posted here to see how things are evolving, and AFAICT Perl6 doubled down on all the Perl5 features I liked the least. More "magic"; more arcane symbols and operators; more context aware variables, syntax and semantics; etc.