About a decade ago many educators where looking for a language to teach programming to utter noobs because governments where scared by the year 2000 bug and asked them to produce more programmers (the latter part is a lie but it sounds nice :) many of them picked Python. Educators play a big role these days when it comes to a first language. Most folk who commented here likely went to school when teachers didn't have computers and didn't even think about teaching programming -- that was considered a hobby. So far I know only two educators who want to teach programming with Perl 6.It takes years for a language to become used by a reasonably large group to make a difference. Given you come from Python you probably know that the first release happened in 1991. Do you know anyone who used that language before 2000? So Perl 6 didn't take off yet because less then a year since the initial release has happened.
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