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This is actually one of the first really positive reactions to Perl 6 I've seen so far. It seems quite nice indeed, but I have yet to really try it for myself.

• jerf 16y ago
  From what I have seen, "Perl 6 is a more practical Haskell" is reasonably fair, though elides a lot of things. And that is actually the most interesting question in my mind; if Perl 5 is a Swiss Army Chainsaw, Perl 6 is a multidimensional Swiss Army Meta-Chainsaw. I question whether there's really that many people who can safely wield such a device. But I'm glad someone's trying it, the answer is worth knowing. And being the first language with arguably a more fungible grammar than Lisp will be interesting too. So many wonderful things can be done with that.... and so many more so very, very terrible things. It will certainly be interesting.
  • chromatic 16y ago
    I question whether there's really that many people who can safely wield such a device. Remember that much of the motivation behind Perl 6 design decisions is to improve the defaults such that the multidimensional artifacts can stay safely stowed from people who and in programs which don't need them.
  • aristidb 16y ago
    Haskell is probably a lot more stable and suitable for real-world use, i.e. more practical, than Perl 6.
    • jerf 16y ago
      I'm talking about the still-hypothetical "usable public release" for both of them. Despite the variance in calendar ages, both are really only now starting to come to some level of practical usability, it seems to me.