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I think an interesting question is, if the developers of Perl 6 knew from the beginning that they are essentially designing a new language with a new identity,
by mojuba 7y ago
I think an interesting question is, if the developers of Perl 6 knew from the beginning that they are essentially designing a new language with a new identity, would their new language be different and to what extent?
- de_watcher 7y agoDevelopers now want to grab old folks by using old name and new ones by using new name. Politically they can do that because there is a Perl 5 faction existing because of the big differences between 5 and 6.
- cestith 7y agoWhy are Modula, Modula 2, and Modula 3 so different? Or PHP 3 and PHP 7? Or K&R C, C89, C99, and C11? Or ISO Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, and Delphi? There are many, many languages that have been closely related but with wildly different names. There have also been plenty of languages which shared mostly the same name but are very different. It might be easy to see a mistake here in hindsight, but when the project first started that was much less clear.