in reply to Waiting for Perl 6
in thread Tim O'Reilly on Perl

The semantics of Perl6 are a superset of the semantics of Perl5, and the syntax isn't that different.

Or, do you want to ignore Perl for the two years it'll still take for Perl6 to be deployed?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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