> I would call the transition fatal, not painful. It's really sad. In retrospect they certainly should have named it something different. The Perl 5 community

> I would call the transition fatal, not painful. It's really sad. In retrospect they certainly should have named it something different. The Perl 5 community could have progressed, maybe even made a Perl 6, while the NGPerl skunkworks project continued independently for 15 years.