Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

“I've been thinking a lot about where Perl 5 is headed since way back in 2005 or 2006 when I was the Perl 6 project manager.”

LWN.net's editorial pickup of Jesse Vincent's perl5-porters post laying out the strategic vision for Perl 5.16 — version declarations, modularizing core features, a two-year deprecation cycle, and reconsidering what ships with core. Published while Vincent was Perl 5 pumpking.