Perl is dead

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:13:55AM -0500, jesse wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:44:43AM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Renaming Perl 6 to something completely different, and renaming perl
> > 5.12 to perl 6.
> 
> Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages at this point.
> 
> Perl 5 12.0 solves that problem neatly ;)
        ^  ^
        |  |
        `----- that character
           |
           `-- and that character

are not the same, yet they map to the same concept in the implementation.

Find a single character that can sit in both positions, and this plan is
far more viable.

Nicholas Clark