[petre]

> the steering council simply wants to to avoid being bitten by Zawinski's "CADT" model

They're being bitten by the bikeshedding model instead, actively encouraging the use of the language like it's 1998. You want to live in 2022? Fine, just type

   use v5.36;

At the top of your program.

[dinom]

I hesitate to say "they're bikeshedding" since triviality can be highly subjective.

For me, backward compatibility and a smooth, discretionary upgrade path is greatly preferred to trends in language popularity. Therefore, I appreciate the extra deliberation they seem to be taking. Of course other people have different preferences.

To suggest they're bikeshedding implies there's some bigger problems being ignored. Can you elaborate on what those may be?

[petre]

> Can you elaborate on what those may be?

Read rurban's comment below.

[dinom]

I see. Still, somehow I don't think trying to crow-bar "Perl11" onto machines against end user wishes is the right approach. There could be a backlash.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯