[Purdue-pm] Quick Perl [5,6] Question

[Joe Kline]

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Dave jacoby wrote:
> http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/40481
> 
>     Today at the YAPC::EU keynote, the inimitable Larry Wall,
>     accompanied by his guardian angel and his guardian devil,
>     made a poll asking which ones in the audience believed
>     Perl 5 and Perl 6 are the same language, and which ones
>     believed they are two different languages.
> 
> I open this to everybody on the list, even though I think Mark is
> actually most qualified to answer. Do you regard Perl 5 and Perl 6 as
> the same language or different languages?
> 

Different.

Although I would agree with chromatic that "Perl 6 was a precondition
for modern Perl."

joe
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