This is also thoroughly debunked in another article posted here an hour ago or so: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-comparison-of-perl-5-a

This is also thoroughly debunked in another article posted here an hour ago or so: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-comparison-of-perl-5-and-rakudo-star.html http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2010/07/an-accurate-compar... Comes across to me like chicken-little syndrome.