Perl was lucky that the Perl 6 diversion happened. If it had stayed the course and popularity it would no longer be perl like python is no longer python (such b

Perl was lucky that the Perl 6 diversion happened. If it had stayed the course and popularity it would no longer be perl like python is no longer python (such bad version dependency hell there's actually a layer of package manager hell). Now well after the perl 6 diversion Perl 5 activity has come back and there are new features. But most perl devs and the culture still has the habit of writing for portability and stability instead of using incompatible features a month after the compiler/interpreter/etc adds them.