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In a nutshell: unlike Perl itself, it wasn't created to solve a problem. Its purpose was to "keep the gang together". Imagine a start-up that didn't set out to

In a nutshell: unlike Perl itself, it wasn't created to solve a problem. Its purpose was to "keep the gang together". Imagine a start-up that didn't set out to solve a problem... So it's a kind of research language - which is important and has its place.

lizmat 7y ago
> So it's a kind of research language - which is important and has its place I'd rather say that Perl 6 is an inspirational language. With other languages stealing ideas and features from it. But also a complete, production ready language on its own. Based on MoarVM, a virtual machine specifically designed to run Perl 6 on, but with more general applicability as well. And with some exciting developments for the GSOC: one of which should allow creation of a single executable for a Perl 6 application on Linux / MacOS and Windows.
- hyperpallium 7y ago
  Quite a lot of ideas came out of lisp, though lisp itself remains niche. What ideas have come out of Perl 6?
  - lizmat 7y ago
    - grammars, mutable at that - simple declarative class definitions - easy to use async primitives - easy to use event driven primitives - unicode support based on graphemes