[simgidacav]

This post sounds a bit like trolling :D

However, I believe the real power of Perl, besides the obviously awesome regex handling, is the "huffmann" principle of making common things super-quick. Sure this is the major cause of read-only code, but it's also the reason why I use perl every time I just need things to be done.

In Perl6 they kept this principle in mind, and this is the important part IMHO.

[otoburb]

>>Sure this is the major cause of read-only code

Did you mean "write-only" code? Read-only code would be a much touted language feature and cause for celebration!

[eCa]

(But productivity would suffer.)