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Your not of the opinion that the P5 sources have just reached the point where further enhancement involves so much hacking, conditional compilation, and intertwining of the new with the old that it has effectively been rendered almost impossible to maintain never mind extend?

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Re: My 2004 Perlish Wish
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 02, 2004 at 10:25 UTC
    In the three and a half years that the Perl6 project is on its way, perl5 has produced 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.2, and even 5.9.0. In the mean time, perl6 hasn't even decided how their operators will look like.

    Granted, modifying the perl5 sources is hard, but that's caused a large part by having to be backwards compatible. If, just like perl6, that condition could be lifted, it would be easier to develop 5.10 or 5.12.

    Perl5 is evolving. Perl6 isn't there.

    Abigail

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