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Re^2: Perl losing momentum ?

by moritz (Cardinal)
on Jan 30, 2008 at 13:09 UTC ( [id://665117]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Perl losing momentum ?
in thread Perl losing momentum ?

If in a few years it will be Erlang or something similar, should that mean that Perl 6 needs to eschew everything and become a concurrent, functional language?

Actually Perl 6 is becoming that ;-)

It's planned that Perl 6 will get a concurrency model that was protoyped with Haskell, and it has many features that are typically found in functional languages, like Currying, lazy lists, continuations (think gather ... take) and many more.

But it supports so many other paradigms (for example object-oriented and logic programming (think of regexes...)) that you won't be forced to use it as a functional language. And it will be "hidden" with nice syntax ;-).

Sorry for the digression, couldn't resist ;)

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