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Re:Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 by bootload on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:53PM (#10343733)
"At work, I have been using Perl 5 increasingly often over the past two years, mainly because handling unicode in Python 2 is not a lot of fun (and I still haven't come around to learning Python 3),"

Why?

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Re:Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 by peteretep on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:08PM (#10343792)
From what he's saying, it's because of Perl 5's excellent Unicode support.
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