Legacy Traps
Here's an interesting dialogue from #perl6 yesterday: TimToady but the fact is, Perl 5 is basically in a no-win situation long term, which we first recognized in 2000 PerlJam TimToady: now you're alienating all the staunch perl 5 supporters :) TimToady I'm only alienating them "long term" KyleHa If loving Perl 5 is wrong, I don't want to be right. 8-) PerlJam Someone mentioned (probably on use.perl somewhere) that Nicholas tried regular release cycles a while back. I'd like to know if that's true and if so, what became of it. ruoso I don't really think the regular releases is the issue... TimToady I love Perl 5 too, but it's stuck (culturally, and maybe technically) in a legacy trap, and the Perl 6 approach is the only long-term way out of that. moritz_ ruoso: it's not about *regular*, but about being able to rele...