Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Perl 5 maintainer Jesse Vincent has posted a lengthy description of where he sees the language going in the future. "Perl 5 is not Latin. It is a living language, still borrowing liberally from...just about everything. Sometimes we borrow the wrong things. Sometimes we borrow things and use them wrong. Sometimes we invent things and later wish we hadn't. Perl has always been something of a packrat, but we're in danger of hitting the point of being diagnosed with a pathological hoarding problem. We need to get better at fixing problems and moving forward without hurting old code." Anybody with an interest in Perl 5 will likely want to read the whole thing.

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