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Perl 5 is better than Perl 6, so why would I change?


You'll have to elaborate, just saying "this is better" is useless.


Perl 5 is a more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 6. If I want something Perlish, I'm using Perl 5 no matter what.


This is completely wrong. Perl 6 is a much more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 5.

On the other hand Perl 5 is faster for normal usage, and has mature library support, while perl6 has to catchup a lot. Perl 5 is only slower with their not-existing/silly object systems (Moose), there Perl 6 is much better.

Many perl5 devs just don't want to learn a new language yet.


I'll agree with the rest, but not about Moose. It is not Perl 6, but is still probably better than most other scripting language OO systems.


Not for performance which is what I think rurban was getting at.


Performance and syntax. features are almost OK, despite the type system.

Syntax: It explicitly deviates from perl6 and could have looked much cleaner.




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