From: "Dave Rolsky" <auta...@urth.org> > We hear the same argument in reverse that people should work on Perl 5 > instead of Perl 6, as if the people who are working on Perl 6 would _of > course_ be working on Perl 5 if 6 didn't exist. There's no reason to think > this is true, and many reasons to think it's not. Many Perl 6 people never > contributed to Perl 5 the way they do with 6.
Maybe there are others that said that, but I have said something related and I want to be more clear. I said that because Perl 6 was announced 10 years ago, in the latest years there were very few Perl 5 books published, so I was referring only to the work of creating books. This is true, but I don't know, maybe I am wrong and there are other reasons for which there are fewer Perl books in the last period, not only because the interest for Perl 5 decreased... Octavian
