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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by nabdab on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:41AM (#20829897)
Perl6 is not “a single version update” of perl5. It’s an entirely new language.
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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by philwelch on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:27PM (#20831669)
So is Ruby. So is Python.
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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by jazoom on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:53PM (#20833552)
Which is why they're not called Perl 7 and Perl 8 respectively
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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by philwelch on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:25AM (#20836344)
True, although Ruby is called Ruby because rubies the birthstone of the month after the month for which pearls are the birthstone.
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