Or stayed with Perl 5. The last couple of years has seen a lot of development on the core of Perl 5, and there are a ton of libraries on CPAN to make up for som

Or stayed with Perl 5. The last couple of years has seen a lot of development on the core of Perl 5, and there are a ton of libraries on CPAN to make up for some of the language deficiencies that would require severely backwards-incompatible changes to the language.