> Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary? What are you talking about? ( http:

> Perl 6 was always right around the corner and why sink more effort into maintaining Perl 5 than was absolutely necessary? What are you talking about? ( http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html ). A lot of the releases in the last decade were inspired by Perl 6 features. And Moose is clearly inspired by Perl 6. I've spoken with people who believe the last Perl release was 5.8 (released in 2002). I believe this is caused by many Linux distributions still shipping old copies of Perl 5, but it's incredibly annoying.