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Sawyer X wrote: > > All of these metaphors are beginning to confuse me. Considering I wasn't > smart enough to begin with, I'll go back to the basics. :) > > My interest boils down to: do the Perl 5 Porters, as a group, have any > intention of continually developing Perl 5 (the language and the > interpreter), or is it simply a state of keeping it alive? Is Perl 5 > still growing are is it at a development standstill? Perl 6 is not the future of Perl 5. After enough years the 2 camps have separated. New blood in Perl 5 is needed (<30 demographic), and it has been trickling in over the last couple years. For a number of years in the 2000s I would say P5 was in "maintenance mode", it has been on a path to get out of that mentality in the 2010s.Thread Previous | Thread Next