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What is the point wasting any time on Perl 6, given it's undeniably unambiguously spectacularly awful track record, and the fact that there are so many other wo

What is the point wasting any time on Perl 6, given it's undeniably unambiguously spectacularly awful track record, and the fact that there are so many other wonderful and better languages available to spend your time learning. There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful (and definitely not any more easy to learn and use and maintain) than any other language. There are no jobs programming Perl 6, and there never will be.

lelf 13y ago
There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful You're just trolling and clearly haven't got a clue. Object system with MOP, subtyping, pattern-matching, new human readable “regexpes“, grammars etc. And for the first time in humankind it chars in string are counted by not bytes, not 2-bytes, not codepoints, not another shit, but Unicode graphemes! 2013!
bane 13y ago
Grammars and proper unicode support are where my main interests lie with the language. I use Perl to "get shit done" (GSD) it's not sexy, it's not my main job, hell, it's barely reusable. But using Perl has been the difference between failure/late delivery and success/early delivery/under-budget more times than I can even remember. As late as the end of last year I has hacking Perl 5 code as a side project to GSD and took a project that went from not-existing because the scope was unfeasible for the next 3 calendar years to existing and producing measurable results 3 weeks later. That work got me a promotion and then a new better job making more money (and not doing Perl work) and overall joy and happiness because I was the guy that GSD (and Perl made that happen).
- SimHacker 13y ago
  If Perl is so great at getting shit done, then maybe they should have written Perl 6 in Perl 5, then they might have gotten shit done in less than a decade.
  - chromatic 13y ago
    Perl 5 isn't magic fairy dust you can sprinkle over a project with no deadlines, no pressure to produce anything, and no idea what it's eventually going to be. It's a language for people who want to get something done and who know what that something is. You are probably thinking of Ruby. Wait, Haskell. Hold up, Erlang. Sorry, Node.js.
kamaal 13y ago
>>What is the point wasting any time on Perl 6 What is the point in spending time on any thing new? >>given it's undeniably unambiguously spectacularly awful track record, How many inventions throughout history fall into these category? Airplanes, Rockets? >>and the fact that there are so many other wonderful and better languages available to spend your time learning. So this will be one of them. >>There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful (and definitely not any more easy to learn and use and maintain) than any other language. Seriously? Have you even read the specification? If Perl 6 sees the light of the day in say an year, it will be the equivalent of what current day 10 languages together would achieve in 10 years from now. >>There are no jobs programming Perl 6, and there never will be. Which is true for any new language ever.

lelf 13y ago

There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful You're just trolling and clearly haven't got a clue. Object system with MOP, subtyping, pattern-matching, new human readable “regexpes“, grammars etc. And for the first time in humankind it chars in string are counted by not bytes, not 2-bytes, not codepoints, not another shit, but Unicode graphemes! 2013!

bane 13y ago

Grammars and proper unicode support are where my main interests lie with the language. I use Perl to "get shit done" (GSD) it's not sexy, it's not my main job, hell, it's barely reusable. But using Perl has been the difference between failure/late delivery and success/early delivery/under-budget more times than I can even remember. As late as the end of last year I has hacking Perl 5 code as a side project to GSD and took a project that went from not-existing because the scope was unfeasible for the next 3 calendar years to existing and producing measurable results 3 weeks later. That work got me a promotion and then a new better job making more money (and not doing Perl work) and overall joy and happiness because I was the guy that GSD (and Perl made that happen).

SimHacker 13y ago
If Perl is so great at getting shit done, then maybe they should have written Perl 6 in Perl 5, then they might have gotten shit done in less than a decade.
- chromatic 13y ago
  Perl 5 isn't magic fairy dust you can sprinkle over a project with no deadlines, no pressure to produce anything, and no idea what it's eventually going to be. It's a language for people who want to get something done and who know what that something is. You are probably thinking of Ruby. Wait, Haskell. Hold up, Erlang. Sorry, Node.js.

kamaal 13y ago

>>What is the point wasting any time on Perl 6 What is the point in spending time on any thing new? >>given it's undeniably unambiguously spectacularly awful track record, How many inventions throughout history fall into these category? Airplanes, Rockets? >>and the fact that there are so many other wonderful and better languages available to spend your time learning. So this will be one of them. >>There's nothing in Perl 6 that makes it any more powerful (and definitely not any more easy to learn and use and maintain) than any other language. Seriously? Have you even read the specification? If Perl 6 sees the light of the day in say an year, it will be the equivalent of what current day 10 languages together would achieve in 10 years from now. >>There are no jobs programming Perl 6, and there never will be. Which is true for any new language ever.