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."

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Perl 6 for Perl 5-ers

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One of the coolest things about the Perl 6 development is that it leads to lots of improvements available right here, right now with Perl 5.

Attribute for example have been incorporated in perl 5.7.2, and a whole unch of new modules by Damian and others use them in tons of creative ways.

I am not sure this would have been done without the Perl 6 process. It forced the whole community to re-examine the language, take a step back and think of new ways to improve it. This would have been much more difficult if we had not had license to do it freely under the Perl 6 RFC process. This is the kind of things that keep a community alive and creative.

And BTW Perl 6 will still let you write quick'n dirty one-liners, and the first goal of the design of the interpretor is Speed (Larry mentionned "and it'has to be fast" about 25 times in 60 seconds in his last State of the Onion0.