Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
by IslaDeEncanta on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:34AM
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Perl 5 is better than Perl 6, so why would I change?
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
by lucb1e on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:52AM
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You'll have to elaborate, just saying "this is better" is useless.
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
by IslaDeEncanta on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:02AM
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Perl 5 is a more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 6. If I want something Perlish, I'm using Perl 5 no matter what.
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
by rurban on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:21AM
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This is completely wrong. Perl 6 is a much more expressive and logically consistent language than Perl 5.
On the other hand Perl 5 is faster for normal usage, and has mature library support, while perl6 has to catchup a lot. Perl 5 is only slower with their not-existing/silly object systems (Moose), there Perl 6 is much better.
Many perl5 devs just don't want to learn a new language yet.
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
by berntb on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:28AM
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I'll agree with the rest, but not about Moose. It is not Perl 6, but is still probably better than most other scripting language OO systems.