And people think Perl 6 is slow time perl6 -e 'say [1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9] >>**>> 2' [(1 4 9) (16 25 36) (49 64 81)] real 0m0.170s Note that the

And people think Perl 6 is slow time perl6 -e 'say [1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6; 7, 8, 9] >>**>> 2' [(1 4 9) (16 25 36) (49 64 81)] real 0m0.170s Note that the majority of that time is just loading Perl 6. time perl6 -e 'Nil' real 0m0.156s Perhaps someone could create a slang module for Julia in Perl 6, as that would be a fairly easy way to improve its speed. (Assuming Julia is easy to parse and doesn't have many features that aren't already in Perl 6)