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Perl6 is more marketing than substance (Score:1)
I care only for Perl5, and most of what I have to say about Perl6, or Rakudo, is not welcomed by the much vocal Perl6 groupies, hence I usually stay quiet when they blog about it. But then again, it feels like I am lightyears away from them anyway, with my requirements for stability and reliability, and with my core software upgrade cycles anyway, so the only thing Perl5 and Perl6 have in common is the prefix of four letters to their name.
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I care only for Perl5,
Really? Do you care about Perl 5's given operator or smart matching? Do you think those are "Perl 5 constructs?" Do you really need to care?
most of what I have to say about Perl6, or Rakudo, is not welcomed by the much vocal Perl6 groupies, hence I usually stay quiet when they blog about it. But then again, it feels like I am lightyears away from them anyway, with my requirements for stability and reliability,
Users of Perl 4 (and I was among them) said exactly the same thing about this crazy Perl 5 thing that was going to add an object system and make data structures far too complicated to support in the "real world."
the only thing Perl5 and Perl6 have in common is the prefix of four letters to their name.
Hmmm... no. There are a plethora of features of Perl 5 that remain in exactly the same form in P
Yet Another Just another perl hacker,