Remember that the biggest Perl guru is you. Not Larry Wall or Tom Christiansen or Damian Conway or whoever. That’s because none of them can dictate to you how to work with Perl, solve problems with it or with something else, etc. As much as I appreciate their efforts at making Perl better and more usable, I don’t think they have or should have a monopoly on where Perl is going to. The world is your oyster.