you can't learn perl 5 (as a new programmer) because of perl 6, and the last time I did a search for a perl 6 solution it didn't work for me, I actually ended up installing perl 5 and just doing it that way. I remember now, I literally googled "perl 6 installer windows" and clicked the first link and within 10 minutes couldn't install it. I think the installer just hangs - http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/

so I just installed perl 5 and did it my usual way. But if I didn't know Perl already it would be a non-option. it's just not a language anymore, it's a legacy thing that if you already learned you can sometimes still use.