Perl6 for Mortals

horos1 writes: "Hey all, I just ran across an article over at O'Reilly - Perl 6: Not Just For Damians which covers a lot of the negative commentary posted by slashdot on perl6 'featureitis'. Very interesting read, and IMO makes a hell of a lot of sense."

Comments

Where is...

[BiggestPOS]

Perl6 for IMmortals. Highlander edition. I mean, I think it would take me a few hundred years to really understand Perl, which wouldn't be so bad if I was gonna live forever. :)

Re:I still don't see...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now they're not going to sell many books with that attitude.

Just what Perl needs - more syntax

[boltar]

Previously most Perl programs looked like the
aftermath of an explosion in a typewriter factory.
Now they'll look like someone blew it up while
the million monkies were typing on them.
Why anyone uses Perl is a mystery to me. If you
want to do scripting use shell script+awk. If you
want to write a proper app use C/C++.

Re:A good article

[smaughster]

If I pull all-nighters, then my code already starts to look like the Perl 6 syntaxis some people dread :)

Useless quote of the day

[Sapien__]

And, on rereading Damian's example with an eye to what hasn't changed, the whole thing still looks like Perl.

Yeah, well, duh...

Re:Comment from a real PERL programmer

[statusbar]

You wrote:

$/ = undef; $wc{$_}++ for split(/\W+/,); print($_, " = ", $wc{$_}) for sort keys %wc;

and got rid of 45 lines of java code.

AWW, MAN! How am I supposed to make any MONEY with perl if I get paid by the number of LINES OF CODE I write???? I have a LOC quota, you know.

(Just kidding)

--jeff