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Re:Perl Already Won by smallsharptools on Sunday January 18, 2015 @01:56PM (#8908386)
Perl 6 was supposed to be an upgrade but it kept changing. I lost interest and know I will never use it. And if it is a totally different language why is it called Perl?
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Re:Perl Already Won by Mithaldu on Sunday January 18, 2015 @05:21PM (#8909188)
> why is it called Perl?

The same guy (Larry Wall) who originally wrote Perl 1 to 5.6 is the one who is writing the spec (though not the implementations) for Perl 6. People let him do it out of respect, even though it's disastrous for Perl 5.

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