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Renaissance (Score:1)
Perl 6 was a precondition for modern Perl.
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I bet that assertion would meet anything from full agreement to full disagreement among Perl 5 people. Doesn't say much about its truth content, of course.
But I wouldn't put it past the Perl 5 people to invent things like Moose and the testing culture even without Perl 6 doing experiments at the front lines. Maybe in a hypothetical parallel universe where Perl 6 never existed, they'd have chosen to be inspired by the good parts of Haskell or Python or Ruby (or other languages with good parts) instead.
Re:Renaissance (Score:2)
Moose is definitely attributable to Perl 6, but didn't the testing culture predate it?
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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Schwern wrote Test::Simple and then Test::More as part of an overhaul of Perl 5 testing to prepare for Perl 6; he was the chair of the Perl QA working group formed as part of the Perl 6 working groups. I extracted Test::Builder from both at Schwern's suggestion.
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I see. I absolutely did not realize this! Thank you for helping me see this additional debt Perl 5 owes to 6.
I also didn't realize you were responsible for Test::Builder; I thought that was all Schwern.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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I believe that T::B was Schwern's idea; I happened to implement the first version.