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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by jrumbut on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:16AM (#20830229)
I think this is what I admire about Perl 6, though also it is why it wasn't released as the successor to Perl 5 10 years ago.

It has some genuinely ambitious features, some things that (as someone who barely dabbles in new languages) that I haven't seen before, or combinations I hadn't seen.

Something novel instead of the umpteenth iteration of "x with a better type system" or "x without that pesky type system".

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Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? by earthboundkid on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:46AM (#20830523)
Yes, God bless them for making old Perl thirty years ago and popularizing the hash map as a core data type, and God bless them for making new Perl and whatever it brings. But I don't actually want to use either old or new Perl. :-)
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