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> The reason why existing Perl 5 developers don't migrate is because they don't need and/or want to. Exactly. I continue to use Perl (5) for text munging, dat
by username223 10y ago
> The reason why existing Perl 5 developers don't migrate is because they don't need and/or want to.
Exactly. I continue to use Perl (5) for text munging, data cleaning, and gluing together programs written in other languages. It was designed for these tasks, I still need to do them, and nothing has come along since that is substantially better. When I need to do other things, I use other languages, and so far I haven't seen that Perl 6 has a "killer app."