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Re: What's wrong with Perl 6?by jettero (Monsignor) |
on May 10, 2007 at 13:48 UTC ( [id://614628]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I don't find anything too terrible about perl6, but I know very little about it. I had some trouble getting it to run at all on my system and gave up really fast. I'm a big perl5 fan and I don't intend to learn perl6 until it's done. I do have two relevant comments though. First, I think I saw somewhere something like, "%perl6hash{$key}{$key}" and the lack of context prefixing made me feel very sad. I resist change, and I really like the way perl uses $ in scalar contexts and @ in array ones. If "%perl6hash{$key}{$key}" is a scalar, why the % prefix? Kinda reminds me of the changes to nwn2 — too much response to critics and not enough actual innovation. But I know almost nothing about it, so I'm probably totally wrong. Anyway, it's very clear there's tons of real innovation going on. Second, I don't think perl6 will be done until its good so I don't spend any time worrying about whether it'll be good. It'll be good before I learn it since I'm waiting for it to be done. -Paul
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