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by jleader 5745 days ago
I'd characterize these posts as "Last year, Perl developers and users debated the relative merits of backwards compatibility vs. innovation". All of the participants care about backwards compatibility, just to differing degrees. Keep in mind, Perl had just had its first major release in 5 years, and was starting to have more frequent major releases; there's been lots of discussion of how Perl should evolve.

Another long thread discussing the same question: http://use.perl.org/~educated_foo/journal/38525