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I think the difference between Perl 5.10 (2007) and 5.26 (2017) is bigger than difference between the Python 2 of 2007, and Python 3 of 2017 The difference bet
by b2gills 9y ago
I think the difference between Perl 5.10 (2007) and 5.26 (2017) is bigger than difference between the Python 2 of 2007, and Python 3 of 2017
The difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6 is probably about 10x the difference between Perl 5.10 and 5.26
I like to explain it this way:
Perl 4 is to C
as Perl 5 is to C++
as Perl 6 is to Haskell/Smalltalk/C#/Swift/Julia…
- tripa 9y agoThen again I've got Perl code I wrote in the 90s that still runs untouched on the latest Perl 5. Much more recent Python 2 code (of mine) still won't run untouched under Python 3. So I might agree actually on the "bigger", but the "noticeability" does have a lot to do with the general feeling. (to be clear, I agree with all of your comment)