I think it is untrue also, but not completely. Simply becoming slightly more aggressive about "new features available by default" (or even not possible to turn off) coupled with moving slowly enough as to allow for old code to be updated with minimal effort is key. Breaking changes are fine, requiring total rewrites of broken scripts from version to version is not so fine. These days, most have been conditioned to accept breakages from version to version. There's even a defacto standard based on 3 digit version numbers that dictates when to expect breakages. For example, change from 5.30.0 to 5.32.0 - expect some minor breaks; from 5.32.0 to 5.32.1 expect no breakage; from 5.x to 7.x - whoa hold ur butts. Another reason I think we'd be better served with keeping 5.x and being more aggressive with new featuers on until the latest 5.x is SO different from (say 5.32.0) that it is literally a fully different major version.

In reply to Re^3: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by perlfan
in thread Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode

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