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I wrote up a tutorial on Perl 6 and tried to get it more widely known there are a lot of neat features in it and it looks far better designed than most language
by omouse 10y ago
I wrote up a tutorial on Perl 6 and tried to get it more widely known there are a lot of neat features in it and it looks far better designed than most languages:
https://www.codementor.io/perl/tutorial/how-to-use-json-in-perl-6 https://www.codementor.io/perl/tutorial/how-to-use-json-in-p...
However, most people have dismissed it because they think Perl 5 is dead and anything using Perl should be replaced with Python or Ruby or Go or Rust or some other language.
The hacker flavour of the language has been preserved and that's the niche it would fill for me...if I didn't have to basically do frontend web all day.
- branchly2 10y ago> However, most people have dismissed it because they think Perl 5 is dead and anything using Perl should be replaced with Python or Ruby or Go or Rust or some other language. I didn't dismiss it for that reason. I wanted to like Perl 6, but dismissed it because last time I tried learning it: * it seemed to include too much syntax * too much lingo required to understand core concepts * no coherently-written definitive tutorial. No Camel book for that matte. * most examples seem to be written with maximum quirky-ness to show off the acrobatics you can do. I just want to get work done.
- qbaqbaqba 10y agohttp://perl6intro.com/ http://perl6intro.com/ is quite nice.
- throwaway7645 10y agoYes, but as the author mentioned it is a far cry from a camel book. I've been told Larry is working on it, but I bet I can't buy it for at least two years if not three. We do have 3-4 other books coming out in the future, but I want a 600 page monster to make me truly understand it in and out.