This right here is what I've always hated about the perl community. It's so rare to find a perl user who can mention the language without spouting these kind of exaggerations and untruths.
Of course you could always prove me wrong by demonstrated how perl is "flexible" and "capable" in a manner that is unprecedented [1].
[1] un·prec·e·dent·ed
adjective
without previous instance; never before known or
experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an
unprecedented event.On the second part, I did misread the OP as meaning he would return to perl 5 (probably a false mental cache hit, since this is usually the context of such comments). Perl 6 does indeed have a few interesting bits.
Somehow Perl 5 made CPAN possible (and by deliberate language design), so that guy in a kilt seems truly a Scotsman to me.
You must not have learned too much, or else you'd have no reason to go back! :)