Hi Rajeev,

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:20:24 -0500
Brendan <bdgil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How quickly Perl 6 knowledge can be put to good use probably depends on where 
> you work. I don't think there are many businesses where they are looking to 
> convert their Perl 5 code to Perl 6 in the immediate future. 
> 

Rajeev may wish to read http://perl-begin.org/learn/perl6/ about the
relationship between Perl 5/"perl 5" and Perl 6. Neither Perl 5 nor perl 5 are
going away, and Perl 6 is a completely different language. Furthermore, the
current Perl 6 implementations are incomplete (= don't implement the entire
Perl 6 spec), and may not perform very well or have various bugs.

I wouldn't want to discourage you from learning Perl 6, because it's an
interesting language with many nifty features, but learning Perl 5 now will
still prove useful for a very long term. 

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish 

 
> Rajeev Prasad <rp.ne...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >Mark,
> >
> >i think with an eye on future, you should start by reading Rakudo etc. i.e. 
> >perl6 


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