You can try as hard as you can to shift complexity away from new programmers, but it’s impossible to stop them from seeking it out. If you show a new Perl 6 pro

You can try as hard as you can to shift complexity away from new programmers, but it’s impossible to stop them from seeking it out. If you show a new Perl 6 programmer this page, they will run away screaming in the other direction. That’s why Perl 6 is introduced slowly and softly This is so out of touch with current fashion, when "once I worked with a guy who wrote a bunch of code nobody could understand" is an accepted argument against a language. Fashion has cycles, and someday people will come back around to the idea that every language requires taste and restraint, and dull tools present a different kind of danger than sharp ones. Maybe the plan is that Perl 6 will still be waiting in the wings when that day comes.