Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 4:51 AM Stuart Longland
<stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> wrote:

> Perl 6 will be a major change though, more disruptive than the Python2→3
> mess was. So we may be in for some "fun" in the near future.

Gotta stop this before it derails: perl 6 is not the next version of
perl 5. It's not compatible, it's not an upgrade, it's a completely
new language and does no longer even share the same name (renamed to
raku). There is no "perl 6" that will replace perl 5.

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