Perl 6 doesn&#x27;t deserve as many HN postings as it gets.  The original Perl was a version of awk and sed on steroids, back at a time when that was fresh and new (the early 90s).  Over the years, people realized that &quot;there is more than one way to do it&quot; was a terrible idea, and languages like Python and Ruby were born to be &quot;like Perl, but better.&quot;  Now even those languages are showing their age, because of the limitations of dynamic typing and weak runtimes.  Perl 6 is just more of the same, 15 years too late.  Even the most smelly pile of lisp macros still smells as fresh as a rose compared to this toxic pile of syntax.