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Perl6 is amazing! Yes it took a while. Yes it doesn't have the same recognition as perl 5. Yes it's crazy. But it's crazy in fun sort of way.
by mempko 8y ago
Perl6 is amazing! Yes it took a while. Yes it doesn't have the same recognition as perl 5. Yes it's crazy. But it's crazy in fun sort of way.
- simias 8y agoSo are chicken scheme and GNU Forth. The problem is that the Perl ecosystem and community are a shadow of what they used to be in the heydays of Perl 5. I used to write a lot of Perl but I wouldn't really recommend it to anybody these days, be it version 5 or 6.
- wwweston 8y ago"Shadow of what they used to be" is a nice gig if you can get it when the "used to" part was basically the scripting language. Perl is still in top 20 programming language lists. That's arguably "below the fold" of search results, but hey, so are Lua and Haskell. The Perl Community... I don't know exactly what you mean. I might believe that size in terms of active work on a growing number of modules has dropped; but I don't believe the quality of participation has. Even though I haven't written a line of production Perl in well over a decade I still like checking in every so often to see what they're talking about. And for those for whom all you know about Perl 6 is its delayed arrival and related woes, I can guarantee there's more interesting things to be seen.