So, while I agree that it’s wrong to generalise that ‘Perl 6 killed Perl’, I would say that Perl 6 was a symptom of the irreconcilable internal forces that killed Perl. Although, I also intend to go on to point out that Perl isn’t dead, nothing has actually killed Perl. Killed Perl is a very stupid way to frame the discussion, but here we are. Perl’s decline was cultural