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Posted by szr on April 18, 2008, 1:55 pm
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> 1.4: What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6?
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> (contributed by brian d foy)
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> In short, Perl 4 is the past, Perl 5 is the present, and Perl 6 is
> the future.
With all the wonderful developments I see going on with Perl 5 (5.10.0
has a few features, like given/when that were destined for Perl 6), I'm
left wondering if we really need Perl 6. I'm all for the better of
things for the future, but it seems to me Perl 5, especially with the
dawn of 5.10.0, is really holding it's own.
The new features (and I love how you can turn only specific things on,
or turn them all on) are great - I smiled practically all the way
through Perl 5.10.0's perldelata - so I really can't imagine Perl 6
being much better than what Perl 5 has evolved into (and to top it off
it's still pure Perl) :-)
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szr
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