I wholeheartedly agree to the basis of your post: the useless unneeded adding of layers over layers over layers, which only shows that those who do so do not understand the simple things at the bottom. And they then claim that it is simpler this way. NOT!

I however do *not* agree with your sentiment on raku! Raku is a beatifull new language that has even more whipuptitude and DWIM than perl ever had. I love both, but they serve different goals.

I think they both fir the perl-way-of-thinking: just braindump your solution into the language of your choice, and it almost always works out-of-the-box. TIMTOWTDI. And that serves me fine. As long as I am not shackled by formats and style, I have proven that I am able to solve most of the problems thrown at me with either perl or raku.

I sympathise with woolfy's feelings in this.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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