Re^2: Perlmonks are "old school"?

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Re^3: Perlmonks are "old school"? by xyzzy (Pilgrim) on Aug 13, 2009 at 10:20 UTC
When Perl 6 is "old school" I imagine Perl 5 would be what Perl 4 is today :-) "Everything is true." "Even false things?" "Even false things are true" "How can that be?" "I dunno man, I didn't do it."	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmonks are "old school"? by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Aug 13, 2009 at 10:31 UTC
I am not sure I want to think about perl6. You can call me "old school" and "hard core" all you like, but I just don't get it.	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmonks are "old school"? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2009 at 10:36 UTC
`use Perl6::Say; say "Only if you discount CPAN.";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Perlmonks are "old school"? by dolmen (Beadle) on Aug 14, 2009 at 17:38 UTC
No. Perl 6 is a very different language than Perl 5. So Perl 5 and Perl 6 will live side by side. And there wasn't a CPAN in the Perl 4 era.	[reply]
Re^5: Perlmonks are "old school"? by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Aug 15, 2009 at 07:06 UTC
My issue with perl 6 is that surely a general belief will (or maybe has arisen already) that at some point in the future it will be necessary to migrate all old code from perl 5 to perl 6 or at least move it into the legacy bin. I know that this is not true but I fear that perl6 will turn out to be the death of perl - at least in the corporate world.	[reply]