Perl Features of the Future - Part 1

Kevin writes "This story highlights some of the features being included in Perl 6. "There will be substantial changes in the move from Perl 5 to Perl 6. We've been hamstrung for a while by the need to maintain backward compatibility all the way back to Perl 1. There are some things we want to remove, because they seemed like good ideas when they were introduced but they're more trouble than [they're worth] now."

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Re:Perl 6 is a mistake

[Captain Pedantic]

You are obviously not old school enough to recognise the Shoeboy stalking Heidi Wall reference.

While I'm here, what the hell does "nondeterministic finite automata" mean, and is Larry's $2 crack the same stuff that moderators are often on?

All in all, a top class post, worthy of being modded way beyond the +3 it is currently on.