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Everyone keeps telling you to ignore Perl6.

Perl5 has done an excellent job with backwards compatibility and introducing new features and deprecating old ones in the right ways. Half the code in the codebase I'm paid to work on is from 1998. Ran on 5.4.0 seventeen years ago. Runs fine now. I have total confidence it will run fine on Perl 5.30.0 in eight years.

In reply to Re^3: Should I come back to Perl? by Your Mother
in thread Should I come back to Perl? by jekyll

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