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I think the positive sentiment around Perl is because Perl 6 is getting closer to usable and so there is that "new thing" hype with Perl right now which general

I think the positive sentiment around Perl is because Perl 6 is getting closer to usable and so there is that "new thing" hype with Perl right now which generally start to go away when it starts to get put to use in real programs where the bugs and frustrations reveal themselves. Nothing against Perl - this is just how it is with anything new and untested.

SwellJoe 17y ago
Nothing against Perl Why would anyone take that as being against Perl? I think most Perlmongers like that folks are talking about the language as something new and interesting again. But, I suspect it's not entirely Perl 6 that's to blame. Moose has been raising a lot of eyebrows lately, and with good reason...and it's actually usable today. Very few people are writing actual software in Perl 6, so it seems unlikely that folks are twittering about it all that much. But, lots of folks are building software with Perl 5 and Moose.