Perl 5.16.0 released

Posted May 22, 2012 12:29 UTC (Tue) by erwbgy (subscriber, #4104) [Link]

From that email:

Lots of good came out of Ponie, just not the good things we expected. A number of very talented hackers are currently exploring multiple strategies to enable most Perl 5 code to run seamlessly along side Perl 6 in Parrot. Folks have already demonstrated a proof-of-concept Parrot VM embedded in the Perl 5 runtime. Work is underway on a Perl 5 to Perl 6 translator and the existing Perl 6 compiler on Parrot is the proof of concept for a similar implementation of a "regularized" Perl 5. At this point, it wouldn't be reasonable to bless any one right way forward but each of these techniques (and possibly others) could play a part in whatever "5 on 6" scheme we end up with. No matter what happens, we're committed to making your Perl 5 code play well with new Perl 6 code.

The Perl 6 FAQ still says that there will be a translator and a compability mode.