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Everything I've seen about Perl 6, I love to death. I just wish I had an excuse to use it. The problem is, most of the time I start a new project, I default to
by amyjess 10y ago
Everything I've seen about Perl 6, I love to death.
I just wish I had an excuse to use it. The problem is, most of the time I start a new project, I default to Python because it's what I know. I know the libraries, I know the quirks of the built-in data structures, etc. So I just go with what I know.
I really wish I had the discipline to sit down and tell myself "I'm going to write this next project in Perl 6 no matter how much time it takes to figure out how to do what I want to do".
Like, I actually just started a personal project to parse some US Census data a few days ago. I could have, and probably should have, taken the opportunity to write it in Perl 6. But I got lazy and just went with what I knew. I feel really bad about that, since from what I've seen, it sounds like a language I'll love working with just as much as Python.
- gkya 10y agoThis is how I feel about Common Lisp actually (I've a sweet spot for Lisp). I have switched from programming to humanities so I don't really have much programming to do, and all the little tools and stuff I need I code them up in Emacs Lisp, and because of that I actually have no use for CL ATM, and even though I want to write some CL so bad, I write all the stuff in Elisp, I just do that.. :)