Re: Perl 6 coming out in 18 months(?)

[ysth]

To state it a little differently than the previous respondent, Perl 6 coming out has little to do with continuation of Perl 5 releases. I expect the 5.10 series to have a long happy life.

And I know I'm looking forward to being the first kid on the block to be running 5.11.

[diotalevi]

Oh? Want to race?

(btw, I figure another seven years to get from 5.10 to 5.12 but also that we'll have Perl 6 before then. I mostly wouldn't be too terribly surprised to see 6.0 inside of two years mostly just guessing at the pace and how much I'm guessing is left to do.).

[demerphq]

Perl 5.13 will be skipped tho. At least by me. I hope that 5.12, 5.13, 5.14 differ only by their version number. Yes im superstitious. But then again, since Apollo 13 so is NASA. :-)

Or maybe we should just go from 5.11 to 5.14. Hmm.

[apotheon]

Perl 6 coming out has little to do with continuation of Perl 5 releases.

Yeah -- I've heard/read the discussion before about the fact that Perl 6 is more of a fork than a next iteration, and I'm happy with that. I like Perl 5 too much to want it to vanish entirely -- though I suspect that with time I may find myself using it less and less in favor of Perl 6.