A Review of Perl 6

Re:A Review of Perl 6 by s_kilk on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:55PM (#15004889)

Perl6 feels like it could be the ultimate language for Man, Machine, Mineral, and Beast, if only we could teleport into a parallel universe where it war already in widespread usage. The sense of sheer potential off the language is intoxicating.

I like to imagine the Geth in Mass Effect run on a hybrid Perl6/Erlang platform.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by zoffix222 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:14PM (#15004971)

Funny you mentioning Geth... Perl 6's core devs use a bot named Geth to report new commits on IRC. And.... it's written in Perl 6 ( https://github.com/perl6/geth ) :)

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by floatboth on Monday August 14, 2017 @06:40AM (#15007714)

heh, same name as the Go Ethereum client https://geth.ethereum.org/

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by s_kilk on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:17PM (#15004987)

Huh, fun :)

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by sanderjd on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:35PM (#15005346)

I really don't understand why you say that. Care to expand? I can't picture what problems I have that perl6 is the solution to.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by throwaway7645 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:03PM (#15006021)

Well, what kinds of programming tasks do you normally do?

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by throwaway7645 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:39PM (#15005631)

The Geth definitely use Lisp, but the humanoids at the Citadel use Perl6 ;)

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by Baeocystin on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:16PM (#15005525)

Is that before or after they made their Faustian bargain with the Old Machines?

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by s_kilk on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:25PM (#15005566)

The Old Machines are still running Perl 5.

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