Why are we (collective "we", not any one person in particular) so insecure about Perl? If it's because Perl5 has the reputation of a sysadmin tool that would never scale for large systems, Perl6 solves that. If it's because Perl5's object system is "bolted on", Perl6 solves that too. If it's because Perl5 has too much punctuation, well, Visual Basic solves that (hey, what can I say about it?).