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Since it'll take over 20 years to go from perl 5 to perl 6, I'm sure they're safe using 11.

• adamnemecek 13y ago
  I'm not really concerned about name clashes more about the fact that it's a pretty confusing and illogical name.
  • bcj 13y ago
    I took it as a reference to Six, a Python 2/3 compatibility library.
    • solistice 13y ago
      Wouldn't it be 0.666...?
    • fvox13 13y ago
      I took it as a reference to Products.Five, the package that adds Zope 3 functionality to Zope 2... Great python minds think alike?
• kamaal 13y ago
  I think Perl 6, especially Rakudo is aiming for a production release couple of years from now. Having said that it would be pointless to go simply rewrite existing Perl 5 code to Perl 6. A good deal of Perl 5 libraries will be ported to Perl 6. And then Perl 6 will be well suited for a lot of big projects. Perl 6 has a very nice type system, packed with all the goodies of a enterprise object oriented language,it has powerful functional programming features, and with all that it stays true to its scripting roots. The right way to look at it is, Perl 5 and 6 will co exist for much of their individual lifetimes.
  • collyw 13y ago
    Where do you get the information about aiming for release in a couple of years? I gave up trying to find out a while ago.
    • sharyanto 13y ago
      Probably from raiph. I saw that he mentioned that several times on Reddit. Also see the comments on my blog post: http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2013/03/dont-wait-for-perl-6-to-build-your-product-on.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/steven_haryanto/2013/03/dont-wai... (18 months).