The purpose of this section is to explain the motivation behind Rindolf, what it is meant to accomplish, and what not. This section should be consulted before one wishes to add new functionality to Rindolf, in order to see if it corresponds with the philosophy.
Perl is a family of programming languages.
Perl 5 is a good language.
Perl 5 is not good enough for some purposes.
Perl 6, by not being backward compatible, does not provide a real answer to the Perl 5 deficiencies.
Rindolf aims to be an improved dialect of Perl compatible to Perl 5.