Perl 6 doesn't deserve as many HN postings as it gets. The original Perl was a version of awk and sed on steroids, back at a time when that was fresh and new (

Perl 6 doesn't deserve as many HN postings as it gets. The original Perl was a version of awk and sed on steroids, back at a time when that was fresh and new (the early 90s). Over the years, people realized that "there is more than one way to do it" was a terrible idea, and languages like Python and Ruby were born to be "like Perl, but better." Now even those languages are showing their age, because of the limitations of dynamic typing and weak runtimes. Perl 6 is just more of the same, 15 years too late. Even the most smelly pile of lisp macros still smells as fresh as a rose compared to this toxic pile of syntax.