On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 10:06:47AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 4:51 AM Stuart Longland > <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > > > Perl 6 will be a major change though, more disruptive than the Python2→3 > > mess was. So we may be in for some "fun" in the near future. > > Gotta stop this before it derails: perl 6 is not the next version of > perl 5. It's not compatible, it's not an upgrade, it's a completely > new language and does no longer even share the same name (renamed to > raku). There is no "perl 6" that will replace perl 5.
Actually all the cool and useful ideas that perl6 had DID trickle down into perl5 a few years ago. Perl6 was (I think) intended as a test bed for ideas by Larry. Everybody got sidelined when a perl6 implementation came out of nowhere, written by Audrey Tang, an extra-terrestrial years ahead of everyone.
