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But until then stop killing Perl 5 at Perl 6's imaginary existence in the probably future.

What on earth are you talking about?

When that will happen we....

Do you speak for a lot of people? Perl 6 today is better than it was yesterday because people are actually using it and improving it. The same goes for Perl 5. You're welcome to help. You're welcome not to help. It'll happen with or without you.

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Re^5: Reference in Perl 6
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2010 at 06:53 UTC
    Perl 6 today is better than it was yesterday because people are actually using it and improving it

    And will continue to be better tomorrow than its today, and the day after tomorrow than its tomorrow. These minute delta changes added together may take how many years? To come to same analogous qualification to what Perl 5 was when the 5.000 release was made on 17-oct-1994 as per this.

    It'll happen with or ...

    I wish for the same albeit a little faster..

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      Perl 5 circa 1994 didn't have the CPAN.

      Perl 5 circa 2000 didn't have Test::More.

      Perl 5 circa 2001 didn't have Test::Builder.

      Perl 5 circa 2005 didn't have Moose.

      Perl 5 circa 2007 didn't have a usable switch statement or smart match.

      Perl 5 circa 2008 didn't have Perlbrew or Cpanminus or autodie or function signatures (at least without fragile source filters).

      Perl 5 circa 2011 won't have strictures and warnings enabled by default.

      I think Perl 6 will be okay.

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