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I think that I've a reasonable grasp of Perl 5 fundamentals and maybe a bit more. Countless hours with nose buried in O'Reilly/Manning/Addison-Wesley books, eyes glued to a CRT osmosing the monqular (monachal**) wisdom, or glomming unending xterms of perldoc, with fingers flying over my trusty trackpoint have all brought me to this point. Of course, the more I learn, it's increasingly obvious how much I *don't* know. Which raises a question - as a non-programmer intermediate perler, am I better off continuing to delve deeper into the Perl 5 idiom, or waiting for Perl 6 to release? If I wait for 6, that should make for less old stuff to unlearn. On the other hand, not even Larry knows how long that might be - 3 month, 2 years... ? FWIW, threads like Translating Perl5 to Perl6. and Perl 6 will primarily be: and Exegesis 4 and Perl 6 are significantly enlightening, but my question still remains.
Perhaps a bit of context will help frame this broad topic:
So... what do the wise (breth|sist)ren think? Keep in mind that some of us ride the short bus to the Monastery, and must conserve our mental faculties lest we suffer this dire fate.
*props to cjf for da title and nodalic inspiration In reply to Learn more Perl 5 now or wait for 6* by ybiC
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