@mjgardner Do you think it's worth picking up Perl now? I'm tempted to revisit it after a brief flirtation a decade ago, also 5 or 6/Raku?

@sullybiker In general it’s never a bad time to learn something new for its own sake, but I don’t know what “worth it” means to your situation.

As far as #Perl vs. #RakuLang: they are two different languages and ecosystems, as finally recognized by the latter changing its name from #Perl6. Both come with benefits and tradeoffs, some common and some unique. Again, without knowing what you want to do I don’t know which to recommend.

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@mjgardner Really just for my own edification. I'm drawn to the long tradition of Perl in Unix/Linux. It still seems to be very healthy.

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@sullybiker Oh, if you’re into the #Unix tradition and philosophy then you *need* to learn #Perl. No other general-purpose programming language has Unix baked into it so deeply.

@sullybiker #Perl is also going another phase of exciting improvements lately. Experimental features like subroutine signatures and postfix dereferencing are finally stable and misfeatures are being deprecated or forbidden. And there are entirely new experimental features being worked on, including a modern #ObjectOrientedProgramming syntax and paradigm being built into the core language.

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