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• When does it stop? (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  With the development of Perl 6 underway, at what point does development on Perl 5.x stop? Just curious.
  • When it stops scratching someone's itch. (Score:2)

    by jmm (276)

    The Nordic Perl Workshop announcement notes that there will be 4 pumpkings in attendance. There are pumpkings for multiple versions of Perl 5 - often people want to upgrade with bug fixes but avoid any significant changes, so there is ongoing support for many older versions at once.

    When Perl 6 comes out, it will attract an audience very quickly, but established applications will continue to run on their current platforms for a long time.

    While it's easy to write new code in the latest version of the langu
    • Re:When it stops scratching someone's itch. (Score:2)

      by rafael (2125) <{rgarciasuarez} {at} {gmail.com}> on 2004.02.25 10:35 (#28773) Homepage Journal

      'xactly. Perl 5 is not quite dead yet. And that's largely due to the fact that Perl 6 is not Perl 5-compatible: contrary to what happened with the upgrade Perl 4 to Perl 5 (mostly).

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