Re:Modern Perl 4th Edition is out, ebook version is free
by nambante on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:27PM
(#10708890)
Why perl 5? Perl 6 will be released in a couple of weeks. In what sense perl 5 is better?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Modern Perl 4th Edition is out, ebook version is free
by justinator on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:44AM
(#10709080)
Perl 5 has an extremely mature, diverse, and vetted ecosystem, with 20+ years of Perl 5 code out in the wild that people use, maintain, and continually develop.
Perl 6 does not. It will hopefully one day, but come Christmas time, we're not all going to just drop Perl 5 and start coding Perl 6 exclusively. They're Sister languages; Perl 6 does not deprecate Perl 5.