For heaven's sake. Have you even *seen* the Perl 5 internals? If you don't trust things which are self-declared scary hackery to be stable, you probably shouldn't be using Perl until Perl 6 comes out. And probably not until then.
Um, on a somewhat unrelated note, having tried to get a department of mine to switch over to perl from csh and REXX of all things, I have co-workers I hope never see this.
Look, we're not going to agree on this. Should we just drop the subject?
I know I've seen more than I wanted to.
Dan