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It is silly to assume that in the long run, only Perl 5 has a claim on the name Perl.

Update: It's also silly to assume that now only Perl 5 has a claim on the name Perl.

Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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Re^7: fibonacci numbers using subroutine?
by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 20, 2010 at 10:53 UTC
    Ah, but I don't live in the future. I live in the present. If I type 'perl' on the command line, the resulting program doesn't allow Perl6 syntax. The dozens of books I have with 'Perl' in the title don't describe Perl6 - only the ones that actually mention Perl6.

    Note also that C++ has been around for 27 years. But there are only a handful of people who think C++ has as much claim on the name C as C itself has.

    It'll be a long time before the general programming population no longer considers Perl to be a specific language, but a set of languages which share a few similarities.

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      If I type 'perl' on the command line, the resulting program doesn't allow Perl6 syntax.

      As a matter of courtesy and common sense, we install Rakudo with the perl6 executable name, to avoid name clashes with the Perl 5 compiler.

      Using that courtesy and common sense against us ist just being an asshole.

      Also if you don't care about Perl 6, why do you answer Perl 6 nodes at all?

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