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are the same! Larry Wall with a cast of several.<p>
I can't recall anybody ever saying anything about <em>the last rewrite</em> in connection with Perl5.<p>
Perl5 was neccesary to make it possible to extend Perl by using modules - in Perl1-4 that had to be done by compiling in the changes to the language leading to oraperl (with Oracle connection), ingperl (with Ingres connection) and so on.<p>
Perl6 is neccesary because the core of Perl5 is so old (10 years) and extended that any changes risk failures. the language needed an update - just like the Perl4 -> Perl5 update.
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