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Perl 5 is innovative again (Score:2)

by jdavidb (1361) on 2008.01.11 9:22 (#60163) Homepage Journal

Sounds good. I noticed that 5.10.0 seems to make more sweeping changes than the last several releases, and your proposals would carry that even further, I think.

Maybe Perl 5 will approach Perl 6 asymptotically.

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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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  by dagolden (6584)
  
  That was my thought. Perl 5 should backport as much syntax and semantics as can be.
  
  -- dagolden

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