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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:09AM (#12891067)
I love Perl. My favourite language.

But i hate Perl6. It feels like an obnoxious showoff who people prefer not to talk to.

It offers little that I crave for in Perl. And those bits I can do with Go already.

Perl6 is a distraction from what we should have had .. I'm still dreaming of the day Perl7 comes out with these features: (i) full Perl5 functionality (without having that klunky Inline::Perl5), and (ii) built-in concurrency.

Perl6 is late to the party. Sorry kid, nobody likes you and besides, it's time to go home.

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:01AM (#12891019)
I've heard that Inline::Perl5 is klunky

What's your experience?

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:31AM (#12890826)
> #Does what it says on the tin > say "Yippee" if $date.later(:5years).is-leap-year;

Is that a Georgian or Benghali or Indian or Buddist Era Thai leap year?

Actually are we talking the Georgian calendar - or the Julian, Revised Julian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic, Hindu, Bahai, or Solar Hejri calendar ?