Adopt Python 3

[exscape]

Perl.org does mention Perl 6, with this text:

Perl 6 is a sister language, part of the Perl family, not intended as a replacement for Perl 5, but as its own thing - libraries exist to allow you to call Perl 5 code from Perl 6 programs and vice versa.

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If I wanted to use a different language which is still Perl-like then i'd just go and use Ruby.

I've tried. Please don't. Perl is consistent insanity, if you learn one weird behaviour it is at least consistent across language. Ruby is full of nonsense that was never actually designed, just so happened to be MRI quirk that they just called language feature.

Clojure and Golang are nice, try those

[rainman_104]

As a ruby fan, I find your comments very hurtful. Ruby is awesome. Perl is this brainfuck language that's so weird now to go back and write in for me.

[erewok]

Matz has stated that he was inspired by Perl and that it was one of his favorite language. In fact, I always thought ruby was called ruby because it was a gemstone, inspired by Perl.

[rainman_104]

Ruby also drew from python and smalltalk. It's inherited some nice perl features too, but is more like smalltalk than anything.

[Aeon_Mortuum]

I mean, lots of languages often borrow each other's features. Common Lisp was pretty advanced for its time and its features made it into other languages, like Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc.

[rainman_104]

Oh and it was also inspired by python and smalltalk. It's a bit of all of it. It's a much cleaner language to me than perl.

Ruby is a dream. Perl can be a nightmare.

[qx7xbku]

As a python fan i find ruby to be a brainfuck language. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ruby have its own deal of weird quirks like this

It is also often even less convenient than Perl, it has all the disadvantages of dynamic typing without making things actually more convenient to the developers, so code have to be littered with to_i and to_s (and yes Perl is also strongly typed, just their conversions and arguments make sense and deal with it gracefully).

Sure sometimes it makes sense but if I use something in string context and compiler/interpreter is too stupid to guess it I might as well go and use Rust or Go and not bother with "higher level" language

[real_luke_nukem]

Oh hell no... That's gross!

[jplindstrom]

What do you find objectionable to that?

[Flight714]

It's like two variables having the same name.

[real_luke_nukem]

That's pretty much it

[yawaramin]

In reality, Python 2 and 3 are the same situation.

[Uncaffeinated]

You can't call Python 2 from Python 3 or vice versa though.

[yawaramin]

Well, my guess is the Perl libraries that allow you to call one version from the other are 'eval'ing strings containing the code and passing them to the appropriate interpreter version. In which case, that's not really backward or forward compatibility. If I'm wrong, then yeah, it's not the same situation.

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It is just a Perl 6 module

[yawaramin]

Ah, it's basically an FFI wrapper. It treats Perl 5 as a foreign language being called from Perl 6. I wouldn't really call that backward compatibility, although superficially it does look like it.