What disinformation? Perl 5 is supported when using Perl 6. The comment I replied to states:
"Perl6 is such a different language that someone moving from Perl5->Perl6 will likely be mostly/completely a rewrite."
Rewriting is not always necessary due to Perl5 support.
The comment further states:
"I guess maaayybbeee they could translate across. But it would be touching ever single line, in a transformation that would be on par with switching to Ruby (or Python I suppose)."
Touching every single line is technically not necessary due to Perl 5 support.
To your comment:
"But claiming that there is a special soft spot for the Perl5 interpreter is factually wrong."
Nowhere in my comments did I make any such claim. I was simply refuting the statement that people with Perl 5 code will have such a difficult time with Perl 6 that it would be just as painful as dropping all their Perl code and switching languages.
"Perl6 is such a different language that someone moving from Perl5->Perl6 will likely be mostly/completely a rewrite."
Rewriting is not always necessary due to Perl5 support.
The comment further states:
"I guess maaayybbeee they could translate across. But it would be touching ever single line, in a transformation that would be on par with switching to Ruby (or Python I suppose)."
Touching every single line is technically not necessary due to Perl 5 support.
To your comment:
"But claiming that there is a special soft spot for the Perl5 interpreter is factually wrong."
Nowhere in my comments did I make any such claim. I was simply refuting the statement that people with Perl 5 code will have such a difficult time with Perl 6 that it would be just as painful as dropping all their Perl code and switching languages.