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in reply to Re^2: Why aren't you using Perl 6 yet?
in thread Why aren't you using Perl 6 yet?

I disagree. Perl5 has had a great deal of attention paid to optimization, particularly in areas like sorting, regexes, and hash functions. That's one reason why it leaves most other scripting languages (Python, PHP, and Ruby, for example) in the dust when compared on the basis of simple performance.