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I agree partially. When Ruby took off,it captured a lot of programmers that otherwise would have probably gravitated towards Perl (or Perl6). But if Perl6 had

by krylon 12y ago

I agree partially. When Ruby took off,it captured a lot of programmers that otherwise would have probably gravitated towards Perl (or Perl6). But if Perl6 had been finished in 2005 or 2006, things might look quite different today.

chaostheory 12y ago
I'm not sure. imo Perl5 developers tend to be more conservative than the average developer, which makes sense given that maintenance of large sets of Perl5 code is very difficult and requires a lot of discipline; so taking a risk is a lot more expensive for most Perl5 devs. I feel that people moving from Perl5 to Ruby only did so after Ruby became established.