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I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby. That doesn't make sense; why would a "real Perl 6" be measurably worse than Perl 5?
by chromatic 15y ago
I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby.
That doesn't make sense; why would a "real Perl 6" be measurably worse than Perl 5?
- spidaman 15y agoA "ruby vs. perl" fight is the furthest from my mind, I'm just speaking anecdotally about what my friends who, like me, were heavy perl users are using in it's place now. If the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark, yes, absolutely, it doesn't make sense.
- chromatic 15y agoIf the "measurably" bit refers to how the runtimes benchmark... That and language stability, ecosystem, internal coherence, library availability, release process, compatibility, deployment concerns, tooling....