Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by ajb on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:03AM (#13580667)

I followed the development of perl 6 for a bit. I was quite impressed for a while, as Larry Wall disolved most of the warts, corner cases, and ad-hocisms of perl 5 into a language which was cleaner and more abstract. Then he used the cognitive space thus provided to load up the langauge with as many features as he could pack in, and I gave up on it.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by logicallee on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:53PM (#13582027)

>I followed the development of perl 6 for a bit.

To put it mildly.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by b3h3moth on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:01PM (#13582746)

:-)

"In the 20th century I followed the development of perl 6"

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by labster on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:51PM (#13586263)

The mug hit the wall on 2000-07-18, which means there was less than 5 months of Perl 6 history in the 20th century. Apocalypse 1 didn't even come out until 2001.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by CodeWriter23 on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:38PM (#13583103)

I petitioned Ars Technica 3 times to add Perl 6 to their Top 10 Vaporware list. I think, being a Perl shop at the time, they allowed personal bias to drive their ruling.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by raiph on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:58PM (#13582718)

> as many features as he could pack in

Aiui there's some merit to the notion of The Lisp Curse[1] and he wanted to avoid it. Do you reject the notion of the curse, or think it doesn't apply to P6, or think he overdid it, or...?

Do you recall any specific features you felt went over the top?

[1] eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by cestith on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:50PM (#13584500)

There's also a bit of fear of The Forth Curse.

For those not familiar, The Forth Curse is what happens when you make a language trivially easy to extend but don't write a large enough standard library of functions or procedures for it. Then your extensible language indeed gets easily extended at every site where it's used. The problem is that it's extended slightly differently in each place to do quite common things slightly differently and in wildly incompatible ways.

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Re:Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what d... by segmondy on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:04PM (#13586621)

Oh, I thought that was the Prolog curse.

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