At the risk of wandering offtopic...

As in Util's entry was unsporting? Or my comment?

Neither. I meant to say that it seemed unsporting to give the victory to the P6 entry, since the language has such a clear edge in concise, expressive power.

If the implicit aspect you're speaking of is a general P6-isn't-Perl sentiment, well, I don't subscribe to that.

Nothing of the sort. I merely meant implicit in that all the Perl Golf I've seen - limited as that is - was P5. I've never really considered P6 for golf, which is why I characterized it as an exhibition entry - bit of a joke with a nod towards the under-development nature of P6, is all.

I've puttered with Perl6 on and off for a few years now, each time coming away with two impressions:

  1. The sense that it's not quite production ready, and
  2. I'm gonna have to seriously raise my game to get the most out of it when it is.

In reply to Re^5: Homework Golf by McD
in thread Homework Golf by McD

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