I hope so. It's pretty bare at the moment, but it shouldn't take too much to get it to where, say, Go-lang was when people started to adopt it in earnest.
Won't Perl6 make the book redundant, I mean the whole reason we needed a Modern Perl book was because there was an old and crufty way of writing Perl5...but Perl6 ditched all that baggage so the only way to write Perl6 will be comparable to Perl5's "modern Perl" paradigm?
Modern Perl book was first released a few years before P6, which isn't even released yet. The companies that currently use Perl (at $work, even) are not going to switch to P6 any time soon, but can, and do benefit from the more recent best practices using Perl 5.
First, Perl is installed on millions of machines by default, with full access to the CPAN--still one of the largest repositories of freely available libraries, with Perl's backwards compatibility and testing offering a lot of stability. If P6 comes out and succeeds, it'll still be quite a while before it can offer anything like that.
Second, I've given away electronic versions of the book for five years. It's not about the money or the job prospects for me. I figure the book's helped more people than I can count, so why not continue?
I figure the book's helped more people than I can count, so why not continue?
It's one of the finest programming books out there, about any language. And your work is very much appreciated. (We've never met, so I hope you don't mind me saying).
And do you plan to update the book to cover Perl6 some time in the future?