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there are unfortunately quite a few monks around here who have very negative knee-jerk reactions to Perl 6

Sure, but there are also monks who spent a lot of time with it and have developed an informed, negative reaction to it.

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Re^5: Why should any one use/learn Perl 6?
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jun 06, 2018 at 06:54 UTC
    there are also monks who spent a lot of time with it and have developed an informed, negative reaction to it.
    Sure, and I was obviously not referring to such monks. And especially not to you. I disagree with you on the subject, but that's OK for me: you and I are perfectly entitled to have our own diverging opinions on this, we just can't agree on everything.

    Update: s/months/monks/. Thanks to LanX for pointing out the typo.

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      I agree totally. Apart from my concerns about the name, I see no harm in people using Rakudo for whatever reason. It doesn't meet my needs. It meets yours. We could say the same of a thousand technologies.

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Re^5: Why should any one use/learn Perl 6?
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 04, 2018 at 19:37 UTC
    Some of us have an informed negative reaction towards Tk or Windows.

    Do you think that's reason enough to hijack threads and spread hate whenever Tk or Windows was mentioned? (Like some monks here love to do if Perl6 is concerned?)

    Personally I would have preferred to have called this product Perl++, alas there is no TimeMachine.pm on CPAN.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      I try not to, but I also think it's important to point out that the notion that "just try it, you'll like it, it's great!" is not universally true.

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        Perl 6 discussions being welcome doesn't mean that they are exempt of critical replies.

        I can hardly remember seeing any "just try it, you'll like it" here.

        However I'm strictly against mobbing away people who want a civilized discussion ...

        ... and I wonder why we need to repeat this disput again and again.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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