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"why isn't it (Perl6) the poster child of the scripting languages yet?" In the Perl6 community there is no equivalent of "The Python Tutorial" [0] or the "Pyth
by bootload 10y ago
"why isn't it (Perl6) the poster child of the scripting languages yet?"
In the Perl6 community there is no equivalent of "The Python Tutorial" [0] or the "Python X.Y.Z documentation". From Python 1.X onwards, if you wanted to learn Python from scratch, this is where you started. Where is this in Perl6 version that assumes you start from scratch without having to learn the baggage of PerlN? [3]
[0] If I'm wrong loot at this: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html and point me to the Perl6 equiv.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/ https://docs.python.org/3/
[2] where N < 5.X
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- pyre 10y agoWell, there is this: https://docs.perl6.org/language/rb-nutshell https://docs.perl6.org/language/rb-nutshell An overview of the differences between Ruby and Perl6, which doesn't seem to assume Perl5 knowledge, but beyond that the docs are a bit lacking on the tutorial front. (and personally they seem a bit lacking on the polish side of things too. They seem like they could benefit from a some better organization.)
- acqq 10y agoPersonally, I don't want to see the Ruby examples or think about them or compare them, I'd prefer just the idiomatic Perl 6.C tutorial (weird name, isn't it?) to see what it brings as an advantage.
- pyre 10y agoI'm not disagreeing that there should be a "Perl6 from scratch" type tutorial instead of "Hey, programmer coming from X language"-type tutorial.
- saghm 10y agoI'm utterly confused by your use of footnotes. You seem to have used two footnotes in your text (with the second one bizarrely being "3"), and then put three citations at the bottom, only one having a corresponding number in the text
- gfldex 10y ago[0] http://perl6intro.com/ http://perl6intro.com/
- raiph 10y agoSome translations: Bulgarian: http://bg.perl6intro.com http://bg.perl6intro.com Dutch: http://nl.perl6intro.com http://nl.perl6intro.com French: http://fr.perl6intro.com http://fr.perl6intro.com German: http://de.perl6intro.com http://de.perl6intro.com Japanese: http://ja.perl6intro.com http://ja.perl6intro.com Portuguese: http://pt.perl6intro.com http://pt.perl6intro.com Spanish: http://es.perl6intro.com http://es.perl6intro.com
- gfldex 10y ago[0] http://perl6intro.com/ http://perl6intro.com/ The start page of https://docs.perl6.org/ https://docs.perl6.org/ is not referring there is a bug indeed. It will be fixed in a day or two.
- bootload 10y agothx @gfldex, index needs to be simpler, the topic pages are great, just what I would have expected.