> actually not quite. given the plethora of libraries/frameworks etc. for perl-5, why would perl-5 programmers move to perl-6 ? I'm a Perl 5 programmer. Perl 6

> actually not quite. given the plethora of libraries/frameworks etc. for perl-5, why would perl-5 programmers move to perl-6 ? I'm a Perl 5 programmer. Perl 6 is a more perly Perl. I can use my Perl 5 modules if I really want, but I can write better specified, safer and more logical code. Just having simple functions like 'whenever' makes developing fun and easy. Please see http://jnthn.net/papers/2015-yapcasia-concurrency.pdf http://jnthn.net/papers/2015-yapcasia-concurrency.pdf for context