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by tp69 1896 days ago
"Perl 6 was one piece of Larry Wall's solution to a rather urgent problem. And that problem was how to separate people who wanted to create new features from people who wanted absolute backwards compatibility. ... But if it didn't happen, Perl was set to implode on itself much more dramatically, much more quickly."

Care to expand on this a little, or suggest an external resource where it has already been elaborated upon?