But can you tell how many talents never tried to join p5p or didn't try to suggest improvements because Perl 6 was on its way?

Ruby was a shock for me after I realized how close it semantically was to Perl 5.

Top Perl 5 with

And you have basically Ruby, just twice as fast.

Update

And the perception of a dieing language came because such improvements couldn't be forged into a newer version.

PHP 5 came with a standard OO system while Perl is still promoting dozens of competing CPAN frameworks 1 1/2 decades later.

A vision and a roadmap would have helped for sure.

> ECMAScript is the most likely candidate to relegate Perl 5 to permanent maintenance mode

Not only Perl. And TypeScript is gaining even more speed.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^14: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" (updated) by LanX
in thread Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" by 1nickt

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