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> Perl6 was a reaction to Perl's loss of mindshare, not its cause. True, but when your reaction takes 10 years, you lost a lot of ground. When perl6 was start
by ergothus 8y ago
> Perl6 was a reaction to Perl's loss of mindshare, not its cause.
True, but when your reaction takes 10 years, you lost a lot of ground. When perl6 was started perl was declining but still in serious use.
- b2gills 8y agoAnd today Perl is declining but still in serious use. It's percentage has dropped by a significant amount, but I would bet the amount of new code has not dropped nearly as much. Also I'm fairly certain that Go is close to a 10 year reaction to Python. (If not it's implementation.) The only difference is that it wasn't done in public. It's so much easier to ignore the years of development when you can hide it.