Why is it that you want others to suffer the burden? Who are you that you think it's easy for others to change their programs? You have no fucking clue how many programs will break, how many companies will use that as an excuse to no longer allow Perl to be used, or how it will hurt Perl as a movement.

Anyway, you don't have to convince one AM. You'd have to convince p5p or Larry. And I'm willing to bet a significant amount of money that it ain't going to happen.

Of course, you are free to patch your own version of perl.