Yes, Perl certainly took an odd turn on their 'next gen version of the language' journey, but I'm willing to bet there will be a Perl community running 5.247.2

Yes, Perl certainly took an odd turn on their 'next gen version of the language' journey, but I'm willing to bet there will be a Perl community running 5.247.2 or some such decades from now, alongside sh, awk & sed.