Re: Back to the __future_

Did Larry really meant Perl 6 to be a new language back then in 2000? I thought Perl 5 and 6 separate more and more in an evolutionary fashion?

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Re^2: Back to the __future__ by hardburn (Abbot) on Aug 18, 2011 at 19:27 UTC
He clearly meant it to not be backwards compatible. Larry did want Perl5 and 6 to live in harmony on a single runtime, but Ponie has been indefinitely put off. "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply]