Oh man, i should've seen this post before i answered to your other one. You're either a magnificent troll or are just commenting on things you have barely a passing knowledge of. Do you also wait for Perl 6 because it will make all Perl code 5 times faster like the recruiter at that Berlin company i visited?
I coded in perl for an agonizing 5 years. Sure, it made sense to start working on perl 5 again once it was clear that perl 6 was stalled but is that still the case? I was under the impression that there are just a few things missing. If that's so then I would say people should be getting prepared for migration.
You can resist it, as has happened in various communities (i.e. python) but to actually compete with perl 6 and try and make the two different languages is down-right cult behavior. Perl isn't a person, it doesn't have feelings. If you tell it "screw you perl 5, perl 6 is better" it's not going to cry or leave angry messages on your phone. It's just a tool.
First and foremost: There is no way to "move on" from Perl 5 to Perl 6. Perl 6 is a completely different language at this point and more akin to what Ruby tried to be, back when it was made, in respect to Perl 5.
And well, with the pace Perl 6 is moving on it'll be another decade for it to become production-usable. There may be only 5% of the feature-set missing (maybe more, maybe less, i don't keep track), but those 5% are the hardest part, and then comes the task of making all that run fast and to bundle it up, etc. etc. I wouldn't hold my breath. Also see chromatic's writings on that matter:
Well, fair enough if that's the case but I wish the perl community would be consistent. Anytime someone jokes about perl 6 not being usable, someone (often chromatic!) comes out and says "it's usable now, you're talking nonsense".
And if it's truly a different language then you should change the name. Racket did it. And then you would have room to eventually have a version 6 of perl (what you call perl5 now).
Quite a few people want to change its name, but Larry doesn't want to and short of kidnapping him and tieing him up in a basement with some sketchy figures in robes and bandanas there's not much we can do on that front.
And well, it is usable as in, you can write software with it. It's just not commercially usable or complete.
