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On Sunday 04 February 2007 9:36 am, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Dr.Ruud wrote: > > Richard Foley schreef: > >> Personally, and I realise this marks me out as a radical > >> non-conformist, I'd like to see a perl7, if only because perl6 seems > >> such an unattainable exercise. > > > > Or go from 'Perl 5.9.x' to 'Perl5 v10.0'. > > That's a good point. Why folks think developing a hypothetical Perl 7 on > top of Perl 5 will be quick and easy I don't know. Its been 3.5 years > since 5.9.0 and 5.10 still isn't out. > > This isn't a criticism of p5p but pointing out that Perl 5 is a pain in the > ass to develop and it takes a long time to get everything just right. 4 > years between major Perl 5 releases and suddenly 10 for a complete rewrite > doesn't look so bad. A rewrite of a large complex project will often take less time than trying to shove a ton of old legacy code through a round hole (*cough*) and thats only if you have the man power. I'm part of a much smaller project that has been planning "version 5" for about 6 years now, and that's all but dropped since there isn't enough people to do an entire rewrite, so we have to do the incremental updates, a piece here, a piece there, and that is taking quite some time. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@gmail.com