Re: perl5 vs perl6

For the community, the best course of action would be for as many people as possible to start using perl6.

This would benefit everyone - perl6 would evolve and mature much faster, this would spurr maturation of parrot, and the whole situation would help pony to grow up and become a fine stallion.

However, personal experience suggests that waiting and staying with perl5 is the best for your health ( physical, mental and probably financial)

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Re^2: perl5 vs perl6 by Thilosophy (Curate) on Jan 05, 2005 at 09:03 UTC
Ponie, for the uninitiated, is Perl 5 running on top of Parrot (the new internal engine for a Perl 6 and a number of other languages that will most likely be released before Perl 6). I expect Ponie to grow up and become a fine stallion (reach production quality) before Perl 6 does, so it will probably be Parrot and Ponie driving maturation of Perl 6 than the other way around. Which is a good thing, since Ponie should be able to run Perl5 code unmodified. And faster than current Perl. And with the ability to use code libraries from other Parrot languages (including Perl 6).	[reply]
Re^2: perl5 vs perl6 by fraktalisman (Hermit) on Jan 05, 2005 at 09:02 UTC
Maybe we need a Perl 6 FAQ at PM. These Perl 6 questions keep coming up again and again and it's hard, especially for newbies, to find an easily understandable summary of the current status, what can already be known / learned / tried out, or if not, that they / we must wait. Like an official statement of one of the developers. Is there one? _{fraktalisman keeps rolling}	[reply]
Re^3: perl5 vs perl6 by qq (Hermit) on Jan 05, 2005 at 11:50 UTC
Perhaps just a link to: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html	[reply]
Re^4: perl5 vs perl6 by fraktalisman (Hermit) on Jan 05, 2005 at 15:20 UTC
Exactly! Thanks a lot for posting. Now if some "elder" monk could suggest the best place where to put the link? _{fraktalisman keeps rolling}	[reply]
Re^3: perl5 vs perl6 by jbrugger (Parson) on Jan 05, 2005 at 11:22 UTC
That would indeed be a great idea tmho. ** Update ** not that i really care, but why is it a 'bad' thing to agree to a suggestion? I don't understand.	[reply]