[fusiongyro]

The author doesn't make the case all that strongly. Despite the quantity of words there isn't a lot of content backing them up. Mostly "fun" quotes an in-joke references I don't get, which he seems to bemoan early in the presentation but lapses into about halfway through.

Perl 5 never struck me as something one would set out to acquire from scratch. Perl 6 does, but there are fresher faces and I wouldn't predict it becoming a major force anytime soon.