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Perl6 was started in the year 2000. It's a lot more than a rev from 5.08 to 5.12, for example. Can you elaborate on some of the more details? For example, what concepts from Ruby and Python are they borrowing in Perl6 that don't exist in Perl5? Wikipedia didn't elaborate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl6#Goals

Sure, at some high-level they're all the same, but the devil is in the details. Just saying they're all the same is specious.

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Actually melling, thanks for calling me on that. Thinking more about it, I think Perl 6 actually has 2 sides: one is the "like Perl 5 but with a number of things improved/cleaned-up", and the other side (which I neglected to think about in my post above) is indeed some major and sophisticated changes (many of which I know little about since I most often use Perl in a simplistic way -- do this, open that file, process these log files, etc.).

If you have some specific questions, I suggest asking them at http://perl6.org/community/irc , which I've found to be very friendly and helpful.

perl6 is a huge leap beyond the current crop of interpreted languages. Go through this content to get an idea:

http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/

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