Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

It will be rather comical if perl6 ends up abandoned without ever seeing any real use, and development moves back to perl5. I half expect this to happen, though. Still, perl6 will prove to have been a rather costly mistake^Wlearning experience.

What is good is that perl5 will finally have a strategy for future evolution. The backwards compatibility has been imposed way too harshly for way too long, and has concerned even features that are widely seen as mistakes to be corrected. To name an example, Perl thinks you refer to package variable $name::s when you type "$name's dog". (The :: package separator can be written as ' although nobody does it.)