> 1. Performance. Back in the 1990s, Perl hit a sweet spot > of being quick for development while still being fast > enough for a wide variety of tasks. It st

> 1. Performance. Back in the 1990s, Perl hit a sweet spot > of being quick for development while still being fast > enough for a wide variety of tasks. It still performs > reasonably well versus other scripting language. Every > time I looked at Perl 6 it failed to be fast enough for > anything interesting to me. Yeah, performance sucks for Perl 6. Simple reason - first make it work, then make it fast. It's just been announced like yesterday that there's gonna be beta releases before the first stable release. My money is performance will get better between now and Perl 6, v1.