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I have never used Perl 6, though I have made sporadic efforts to learn it. The development process certainly did not fill me with confidence about practicality
by microtherion 7y ago
I have never used Perl 6, though I have made sporadic efforts to learn it.
The development process certainly did not fill me with confidence about practicality, but I had already come to the conclusion that whatever I wanted from Perl, it could not possibly give me while preserving its original character, so (after some detour through Ruby), I switched to Python.
- raiph 7y agoThanks for replying. Now I'm curious about the things you wanted from Perl that it did/does not provide. :)
- microtherion 7y agoPrimarily a class system as a first class citizen of the language, with uniform object syntax, without sigils or other syntactic contortions. Being able to pass around open file handles without having to look up 5 kinds of punctuation. Being able to build up complex data structures without having to use explicit references, where something completely different would auto-vivify itself if I used the wrong sigil.
- raiph 7y agoMakes sense. Thanks for replying. :)