Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

For starters, it should be (largely) backwards compatible. For instance, the majority of CPAN code (just to take an example) should run without any problems or differences.

I'd call such a language a "next version of Perl 5", not a "next version of Perl". And that's how our points of view differ.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.

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Re^7: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 04, 2010 at 17:13 UTC
I might have if Perl had a history of doing so. But Perl 2 was backwards compatible with Perl 1. And Perl 3 was backwards compatible with Perl 2. And Perl 4 was backwards compatible with Perl 3. And Perl 5 was backwards compatible with Perl 4. In your terminology, that would mean that Perl 2 was the next Perl 1, Perl 3 was the next Perl 2, Perl 4 was the next Perl 3, and Perl 5 was the next Perl 1. Hence, Perl 5 is the next-next-next-next Perl 1. And then Perl 6 isn't the next-next-next-next-next Perl 1.	[reply]

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Re^7: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 04, 2010 at 17:13 UTC

In your terminology, that would mean that Perl 2 was the next Perl 1, Perl 3 was the next Perl 2, Perl 4 was the next Perl 3, and Perl 5 was the next Perl 1. Hence, Perl 5 is the next-next-next-next Perl 1.

And then Perl 6 isn't the next-next-next-next-next Perl 1.

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