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  • Perl6::Perl5::Differences -- Differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6

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    Perl6::Perl5::Differences β€” Differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6

    Today I spent sometime on Perl 6, which is still on the way developing. Perl 5 is an excellent language, very powerful and is compatible with Linux/Unix quite well: shell, sed, grep, awk, …

    However, Perl 6’s syntax seems quite strange, like a new language. I don’t think it is an easy way for Perl developers to transfer from Perl 5 to Perl 6. A lot of new stuff.

    There is no any other language to do so big change from 1 version updated to a new version. Is it worth for Perl 6 to do so?
    The question is: Currently Perl 5, Ruby, Python are already very mature and own domain markets; Perl 6’s effort worth or not?

    The following is the comparing article between Perl 6 and Perl 6:

    http://perlcabal.org/syn/Differences.html#Operators