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Perl6 feels like it could be the ultimate language for Man, Machine, Mineral, and Beast, if only we could teleport into a parallel universe where it war already

by s_kilk 9y ago

Perl6 feels like it could be the ultimate language for Man, Machine, Mineral, and Beast, if only we could teleport into a parallel universe where it war already in widespread usage. The sense of sheer potential off the language is intoxicating. I like to imagine the Geth in Mass Effect run on a hybrid Perl6/Erlang platform.

zoffix222 9y ago
Funny you mentioning Geth... Perl 6's core devs use a bot named Geth to report new commits on IRC. And.... it's written in Perl 6 ( https://github.com/perl6/geth https://github.com/perl6/geth ) :)
- s_kilk 9y ago
  Huh, fun :)
- floatboth 9y ago
  heh, same name as the Go Ethereum client https://geth.ethereum.org/ https://geth.ethereum.org/
sanderjd 9y ago
I really don't understand why you say that. Care to expand? I can't picture what problems I have that perl6 is the solution to.
- throwaway7645 9y ago
  Well, what kinds of programming tasks do you normally do?
Baeocystin 9y ago
Is that before or after they made their Faustian bargain with the Old Machines?
- s_kilk 9y ago
  The Old Machines are still running Perl 5.
throwaway7645 9y ago
The Geth definitely use Lisp, but the humanoids at the Citadel use Perl6 ;)