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You say this as a joke, but that might actually be a good idea.
by AlexanderDhoore 7y ago
You say this as a joke, but that might actually be a good idea.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThen what's the next version of Perl 6 supposed to be, Perl 8? And the next version of Perl 7 will be Perl 9... From then on their version numbers will leapfrog each other to keep Even Perl and Odd Perl in parity.
- beefhash 7y ago> Then what's the next version of Perl 6 supposed to be raku 2? Perl 5 gets the Perl name back and gets a version number leap to show it's not dead yet and raku is off doing its own thing with its own version numbers, probably hitting 1.0 barely before GNU Hurd.
- DonHopkins 7y agoRakuier PINP: PINP Is Not Perl
- rectang 7y agoI agree. It would make a statement about future maintenance of the language, which is used by a vast amount of existing software.