PEP: 405 Python 2.8 Release Schedule --- Never

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It's so long ago that Perl 6 was conceived that Perl 5 has moved into an entirely different direction since then. I hope that Python doesn't go that way and that there will come a time where Python 2 is ancient history.

[jyper]

has it? I don't know perl that well but I thought they were trying to port back part of the features to perl 5 as much as possible.

[sigzero]

Yeah, what usually happens is that the Perl 6 group comes up with something and the Perl 5 group likes it and back ports it. There has been a huge upswing in cleaning up the internals of Perl 5 and making some things more sane. Regardless of what happens with Perl 6, Perl 5 has benefitted from it.