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It's unfortunate that that wasn't clear to people who weren't closely involved with Perl at the time. So many people got the impression that Perl 5 was outdated
by aaronbaugher 1y ago
It's unfortunate that that wasn't clear to people who weren't closely involved with Perl at the time. So many people got the impression that Perl 5 was outdated as soon as 6 was in development, so they thought they had to move on from it. It's too bad Raku didn't have a different name from the start.
- petdance 1y ago> It's too bad Raku didn't have a different name from the start. We thought that it would take a year or two, not decades. Also, the intent was to have a Perl 5 compatibility mode.
- aaronbaugher 1y agoLooks like the last time I tried out Perl 6 was almost 10 years ago. Even wrote a few blog posts about it before giving up on it again. Might be time to take another look.
- lizmat 1y agoThere is a Perl 5 compatibility mode: it's called Inline::Perl5. Maybe not the one that was originally planned. But that was only a real possibility if Perl 5 would be able to get rid of its XS addiction. Ask yourself: how many of the up river Perl modules are Perl only?
- oofbey 1y agoAgreed. Probably why they renamed it. I think everybody probably wishes they'd taken a new name from the start.