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less "if you can" and more "why you should" (Score:1)
Learning a new language that doesn't have the stable and fast core that makes the interpreter seem like a good choice over the other new languages.
This doesn't count as an argument against continued use of Perl 5 (other than the fact that competition for mindshare is real competition and deciding not to address FUD or play a marketing game is a losing proposition) but it does count as a proposition to potentially dismiss Perl 6 even though there is significant evidence that it (Rakudo) has regular stable releases.
I don't think that the relevant audience for these arguments care that there is a stable incomplete interpreter. What they need to hear is how Perl 6 lets them more effectively do their jobs. Why is Perl 6 an advance over Perl 5? Why is Perl 6 an advantage over using Ruby or Python or Haskell or
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