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Posted by brian d foy on May 3, 2008, 1:30 am
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> Are you thinking that Perl 6 is intended to be backwards compatible with
> Perl 5? It isn't, and it won't be. The runtime will be able to use Perl
> 5 modules, but that's a different story.
Remember, one of the goals of Perl 6 is to be able to run 95% of the
Perl 5 programs already out there. How that's going to happen I'm not
sure, but having a parrot compiler for Perl 5 will probably be part of
it.
The answer, however, is that you don't have to give up your Perl 5
interpreter to use Perl 6. Let your Perl 5 binary run your Perl 5 stuff
and let your Perl 6 interpreter take care of Perl 6.
Perl 5.10.0 was released in December, and the perl5porters is already
working on Perl 5.12. There's no immediate danger of Perl 5 stagnation
or disappearance.
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