My point wasn't that perl6 can't be learned, just the opposite, that it must be *learned*. And that knowing perl5 won't be much of a help. To put it another way: Once my shop switches to perl6, a new hire that only knows perl5 has no real advantage over a new hire that only knows python. Both will have to *learn* perl6.

People who keep arguing about how trivial it will be to convert perl5 code into working perl6 code belittle the fact that perl6 will be a new language and that switching to perl6 will involve a lot more than just writing perl5 in perl6. A perl5 programmer moving to a perl6 shop probably has as much of a learning curve ahead of them as a perl5 programmer moving to a python shop (or a python programmer moving to a perl6 shop for that matter).

I don't have a problem learning perl6, and I've kept up with perl6 development as best as I can. I have a problem with people who trivialize what the cost of switching to perl6 will entail.

In reply to Re^4: OT? Pragmatic Perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread OT? Pragmatic Perl by Eyck

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