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:
I've recently begun writing perl modules, and expect that learning use of hashrefs and writing OO would fit right in.   If Perl 6 weren't coming down the pike somewhere in the near future, I'd dig right in to begin learning of such.   I may anyway, but would like to hear others' opinions first.

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.
    cheers,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept <br '>    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

*props to cjf for da title and nodalic inspiration
** and to mdillon for most excellent vocabularity

In reply to Learn more Perl 5 now or wait for 6* by ybiC

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