[Update 2015-10-18: Now that Perl6 has shipped, this article is less relevant. The point, however, is that shipping "good enough" is better than not having anything available. That's always true.] In all the time I've been waiting for Perl6 I learned Python and, guess what? I like Python better. I'm a big fan of Perl. I have been since 1991, Perl 4.032. That was 19.5 years ago. Back then learning
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