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in thread Future Of Perl

Actually, PHP 6 is a similar situation to Perl 6. Development is going a lot slower than was initially hoped, and although the 5.x series had been planned for retirement after 5.2.x, it is now once again the mainline version, with 5.3.x and 5.4.x having been released including some of the functionality originally planned for PHP 6.

That said, I'd expect PHP 6 to be ready before Perl 6. It's a much less ambitious update to the language.

Also: PHP 4 was not the standard in 2009. PHP 5 was released in 2004, and by 2009 most large software projects had dropped support for PHP 4. (PHP 4's object model is pretty awful.)

(PHP is my second language... third if you count English.)

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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