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The thing about having a "Perl 6 moment" is that there needs to be something better than Perl 6, and Perl 6 needs to suck. Python neither sucks nor has any com
by andrewljohnson 17y ago
The thing about having a "Perl 6 moment" is that there needs to be something better than Perl 6, and Perl 6 needs to suck.
Python neither sucks nor has any competitors that are obviously better. And of course there's that nice feature that Python has that Perl never had in any version - the ability to read code twice.
- chromatic 17y ago> ... of course there's that nice feature that Python has that Perl never had in any version.... I expect better from HN comments. "I've tried, repeatedly, but I still find sigils difficult to understand" is fine. "I prefer postfix method calls to infix or prefix symbolic operators" is fine. "I've never figured out how to use Perl's copious testing libraries or static analysis tools to write maintainable code" is honest. "I believe that consistent indentation is a primary factor in long-term maintainability" starts to trip my hogwash-o-meter.