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

• lucb1e 10y ago
  You'll have to elaborate, just saying "this is better" is useless.
  • IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
    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.
    • rurban 10y ago
      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.
      • berntb 10y ago
        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.
        • Ulti 10y ago
          Not for performance which is what I think rurban was getting at.
          • rurban 10y ago
            Performance and syntax. features are almost OK, despite the type system. Syntax: It explicitly deviates from perl6 and could have looked much cleaner.