Having somehow avoided much Perl for most of my working life, I&#x27;ve recently done quite a bit of it (Perl 5 this is), and I have found it, syntactically, a painful experience when compared to Ruby and Python. The one thing I have loved compared to those two though is the performance. If Perl 6 retains that performance edge it may gather mindshare, but otoh my impression of Perlists that I work with is that they are quite content with Perl 5&#x27;s warts, so I am not convinced that 6 will have much of an impact.