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I feel like I've read something like this before. Years ago. About 18 years ago actually. Back then they wrote about "Perl", not "Perl 5", but it does sound familiar. "In ten years Perl will have this and that and for that we have to break compatibility in a few places. Only as necessary of course!"

And then came the feature creep and ten years later we had a promise that "before Christmas for sure ..." and some years later we have something that somewhat resembles a merge of Perl, APL and Ada with Perl having the least influence named Perl 6 (with a "cute" logo and a bunch of SJWs burping about inclusivity) and a repeat of the discussion we had before that project started.

Somewhere along the way something went terribly wrong!

Jenda

In reply to Re: The Future of Perl 5 by Jenda
in thread The Future of Perl 5 by Laurent_R

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