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Perl6 for Mortals

Posted by michael on from the laziness-impatience-and-hubris dept.

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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  1. dear GOD by delmoi · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'd never really looked into Perl before, but after reading through that document, and look at the examples, (both of perl 5 and 6) I can safely say that I will never learn it. My god, what a fucked up language. Most programming languages you can get a pretty good idea what's supposed to be going on just by looking, but with this?? Half of it looks like Asian smilies $^_+ WTF!?

    It may be easy to write, but god, isn't there somthing to be said about being able to read a PL?

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  2. From the article: by oojah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One of the headers detailing "bad things about Perl 6" is

    "Perl 6 inspires fear."

    And this is a change from previous versions of Perl how exactly? Perl scares me, whatever version it is :) Not as much as it used to, mind. I got around to actually looking at it rather than just being scared and it's not so half as bad as I expected.

    Roger

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