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Re^4: A wholly inadequate reply to an Anonymous Monk

by Anonymous Monk
on Apr 23, 2010 at 10:28 UTC ( #836489=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

in thread A wholly inadequate reply to an Anonymous Monk

Eight years for Python 3 is a selective example. Much of that time was spent dragging their feet because they were in no hurry.

A much better example is PHP 4 to PHP 5. Now, we can all agree that PHP is a pile of dung but PHP 5 is much *much* better than version 5. And it took just 4 years (first 4 release: 2000, first 5 release: 2004).

The Perl core was already good in 2000. I'd like to have seen what a similar effort without the constrains of backwards compatibility would have been like *without going too wild*.

Re^5: A wholly inadequate reply to an Anonymous Monk
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on May 01, 2010 at 03:53 UTC

    Well, there is (was) Topaz and then there's Kurila (or maybe a better link to it?).





    If you want a stopgap, try Kurila or try actually using Perl5 with Moose and the other widely considered best-of-breed modules to program in what proponents call Enlightened Perl. If you really think it's like programming in 5.004_05 or even 5.6.0 (the major version that came out in 2000) and the CPAN modules that existed in 2000, then you're seeing a similarity most don't.

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