One of the problems with people's impression of perl6 is that nobody pays attention to the things that are the same. All the procedural bits of perl5 are still there. Most perl6 will look mostly like perl5, with little differences,
But the differences are important and there are *many*! Sure, I might need only a few relatively minor changes to *write* perl code that runs on perl6. But I (and many many others) need to *read* code too. The only people for whom your argument works are people who may need to *write* perl6 code once in a while. Once a shop decides to switch to perl6, everyone needs to learn the perl6 language (not just the minor syntax differences with perl5). It will be no less a leap than a shop switching from Perl to Python or to Ruby (and may even be harder just due to the perceived similarity).

In reply to Re^2: OT? Pragmatic Perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread OT? Pragmatic Perl by Eyck

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