in reply to Should I come back to Perl?

That's kinda a non-question. It's totally up to you.

If you enjoy perl and can get paid to write it; use it. If not; don't.

Same with Python 2. Just cos Guido declared it dead; doesn't mean it will disappear off your harddrive; or stop being a part of *nix distributions; or a favoured tool amongst a whole swath of researchers in a dozen different fields.

As for the other non-issue of perl5 -v- perl6: there is a sufficiently large percentage of the Perl community that are completely (and often irrationally vehemently) against Perl6, that Perl5 will probably still be around barely changed 20 years from now.

And Perl6: who knows? Do you believe in Father Christmas?

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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I'm with torvalds on this Agile (and TDD) debunked I told'em LLVM was the way to go. But did they listen!

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