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perl 6 eat your heart out

• yas_hmaheshwari 2y ago
  Can you elaborate this comment? Haven't used Perl in the last 12 years, so I fit the persona of "living under a rock"
  • steve_adams_86 2y ago
    Perl 6 took like 15 years to be released, and was met with fairly lukewarm reception, sometimes very negative. It ended up being renamed because it was so different from Perl 5, so it’s now called Raku. It was a flop.
    • yas_hmaheshwari 2y ago
      Got it! Thank you for the explanation Read this line on Wiki: "In Perl 6, we decided it would be better to fix the language than fix the user - Larry wall" Looks like a very good philosophical statement. Maybe there's a lesson here for other programming language ( The other Perl slogan: "Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible" is also really good )
    • bolangi 2y ago
      > It [Raku] was a flop. From what I read, it's a living, breathing language with innovative features, core developers, regular releases and a healthy community of users. What more do you want?