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Funny how people claim Py3k was DOA. I don't know anyone who uses Perl 6 for anything serious. I'd bet that there are 100 times as many Python 3 programmers as there are Perl 6 programmers.

I think Perl 6 still has a chance, though. No reason to dismiss it just because it's developing slowly.

The compatibility mode doesn't do Perl 6 much good, if you ask me. There are already too many ways to write Perl, if you ask a Python programmer. It's like writing C in C++.

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Python 3 has been available and usable for quite some time. Not so Perl 6.

However, CPAN compatibility would be hugely important to a usable Perl 6, by simple fact that no other language has the breadth and quality and availability of libraries to rival the CPAN.