Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by Woodi on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:13AM (#12899289)

So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;)

Examples: multi wins(Scissors $, Paper $) { +1 }; # dispatch on types

my @a = 1..5; say [+] @a; # 15

(a,b,c) Z (1,2,3) # ((a,1),(b,2),(c,3))

my $time = now; say now - $time;

class Person does Employee { }

use NativeCall; # WOW

and MORE !

So ansering: why Perl6 hasn't taken off yet ? Becouse language specification was released 11 month ago with referential implementation (just like Amaya in 1996). So give it 2 years, it will be "fully operational" ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by oelmekki on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:22AM (#12899329)

> So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;)

I'm pretty sure you noticed this was exactly the questions my comment was addressing ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by Woodi on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @08:31AM (#12900032)

Oops, but noticied now :)

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