I was once one of the most prolific authors on CPAN, and this, along with my answer above about lack of performance, drove me away. Perl(5) just needed classes

I was once one of the most prolific authors on CPAN, and this, along with my answer above about lack of performance, drove me away. Perl(5) just needed classes and clean up a few bits of historic cruft (like the need to end modules in "1;", indirect object syntax, etc) and it could have been an awesome language. Perl6 decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater.