[kilna]

Perl was ahead of its time, and likely because of it's Borg-like capacity to absorb a little bit of everything... it was unfortunately nigh on impossible to refactor. This is why Perl6 (nee Raku) took nearly 2 decades to be "done". It's a crying shame that it lost momentum, because many of the techniques that the features of Raku enable are as clever/succinct/revolutionary as the Schwartzian Transform was back in its day... but because the developer community is so very small now, Raku will have a very hard time catching up to the performance of competing languages.