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On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 09:19:07PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > On 08 Sep 2014, at 16:33, bulk88 <bulk88@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > This feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. Is that really what you want? > > For better or for worse, Perl 6 is here to stay. Whether one wants to > be a part of that, is a personal decision. But please, keep an open > mind and don’t perpetuate bad memes. I'm looking forward to many happy years using Perl 5 and Perl 6. Since we're talking roadmaps and vision, I think there's likely to be work that can be done to improve the interoperability in various dimensions. (E.g. https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5 and p5-mop-redux etc etc.) Tim.Thread Previous | Thread Next