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 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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