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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by thesuperbigfrog on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:36AM (#23361090)
Exactly. Widely-used programming languages continue to be used even when the authors move to a new version.

Perl 5 lives on and is still developed and maintained: https://www.perl.org/get.html

Perl 6 became Raku: https://www.raku.org/

Python 2 is still in use, but officially deprecated: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

You could probably start a business maintaining a Python 2 distribution and selling support to businesses and organizations that rely on Python 2 and are not in a position to upgrade: https://www.activestate.com/blog/python-2-eol-report-card-is...

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by jhoechtl on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:55AM (#23361209)
Uh, raku looks interesting, the web site is also quite accessible. Sad that it took so long, maybe Perl6 would have regained some territory otherwise.
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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by lizmat on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:37AM (#23369173)
Writing this while looking at CrewDragon docking at the ISS. Which took SpaceX 18 years, and many people thinking they would never make it. If anything, an inspiration to the people currently working on and using Raku!
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