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Perl 6 is a planned major revision to the Perl programming language. Perl 6 introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. Perl 6 is not intended to be backwards-compatible with earlier versions of Perl, though a compatibility mode is part of the specification.
Perl 6 has been in development since 2000. The Perl 6 project has never had a clear timeline, although various contributors have given estimates over the years. In early 2007 Jesse Vincent, the Perl 6 Project Manager said, "The Perl 6 project has no schedule ... one doesn't want to rush a largely volunteer effort to design and implement a worthy successor to Perl 5."[1]
There are currently two implementation projects of Perl 6 underway, Rakudo Perl and Pugs. Rakudo Perl is based on Parrot and PGE, and Pugs is written in Haskell.
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