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> If I want to transform my 100.000 line program to a smaller one I won't grab Perl 6 to transform it to 50.000 but I will grab Clojure for example to transform
by hahainternet 11y ago
> If I want to transform my 100.000 line program to a smaller one I won't grab Perl 6 to transform it to 50.000 but I will grab Clojure for example to transform it to an 5.000 one. Is that the only argument for using Perl 6?
What a weirdly arrogant and ignorant statement. If you're writing 20x as much code instead of using Clojure, then you're doing some pretty terrible programming.
I fail to believe that those 6 points could have been written by someone unbiased. Please show me some Clojure that's 10x more succinct than Perl 6. Otherwise then surely this counts as trolling.
- true_religion 11y agoIt's funny since the claim I hear most waged against Perl is that... Perl is pretty concise, and at times a little too concise to the point of it being a write-only language.
- hahainternet 11y agoPerl is pretty concise, but the list of criticisms above are almost meaningless. Who releases the first version of a language with most of the time spent on the optimiser? Perl 6 loses quite a bit of the Write Only type syntax, and should be very succinct and expressive, but people just type nonsense :(