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Perl 6

• actionfromafar 1y ago
  It's easy to forget how big Perl was before the 10 Year Stall happened. (I.e. when development on Perl 5 was stalled in wait for Perl 6 which never happened. By the time Perl 6 was renamed to Raku, it was too late for Perl 5. It now lives on, but it lost a lot of momentum.)
• zahlman 1y ago
  I first used Python for anything serious in around 2005. From that moment forward I couldn't fathom ever touching Perl again. This was without even considering what changes were planned for 6 at the time; I knew there was a plan but the base of Perl seemed fundamentally unfixable to me.