> Perl 5 exists as it is for the sake of backwards compatibility. This is really says it all: a language, just like any software, develops when issues are fixe

> Perl 5 exists as it is for the sake of backwards compatibility. This is really says it all: a language, just like any software, develops when issues are fixed without breaking existing code. What's so ugly with having a language version declaration on top of a file, or something better? Why I can link any language to C and still I'm not able to use different versions of the very same language at once? Having newcomers wrestle with ancient issues is not progress, IMO.