People will be writing code in per5 for
years, even
if everyone switches to perl6 the moment the first stable
version is released. Remember that the perl6 journey was
started 3 years ago, and Larry hasn't even finished the
language specification yet. Looking at the rate of the apocalypses, if you now start a 6 month project to write a
perl5 module, you will be finished before the next apocalypse.
Not writing a perl5 module because you want to wait for perl6
would be as silly as the Beatles having said in the '60s,
"we won't record this album just yet - we'll wait for CDs to
arrive".
Abigail
