2 comments:

• first Perl 5 is here, and will be here for a long time,even after Perl 6 is released. Perl 6 being available does not mean you will be forced to upgrade, you will still be able to use Perl 5, including by using Perl 6 in compatibility mode as described in Apocalypse 1
• the second comment is that Perl 6 is still Perl: I attended Damian's talk on Perl 6 where he converted a bunch of real-life scripts from Perl 5 to Perl 6. The result was still very much Perlish. It really looked like Perl, only better, whithout some of the clunkiest parts of the language . Too bad I can't find an online version.

So fear no more, your project will still run in Perl 5 AND in Perl 6, and you will not have to completely re-learn the language, just get used to a slightly different, but usually simpler, syntax.

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