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I am not so sure. Perl 5 is more widely used and had much greater historical adoption as the "glue" of the early Internet. Perl 6 has not displaced Perl 5 and
by thesuperbigfrog 7y ago
I am not so sure.
Perl 5 is more widely used and had much greater historical adoption as the "glue" of the early Internet.
Perl 6 has not displaced Perl 5 and does not appear to be in a position to do so. I believe Perl 5 may out last Perl 6 based on how widely it is used and available.
It is a different situation compared to Python 2 / Python 3. Whereas Python 3 is slowly replacing Python 2, the same cannot be said for Perl 6 slowly replacing Perl 5.
- smitty1e 7y agoPython2 is EOL as of the end of this year.
- thesuperbigfrog 7y agoExactly--there is momentum to migrate from Python 2 to Python 3 since support for Python 2 is ending. I prefer Python 3 to Python 2 and have migrated all my projects that still matter. Support for Perl 5 is not (to my knowledge) ending anytime soon.