I got the same impression (perl6 is getting too complex) already 2 years ago from various (well done) talks from Damian Conway about the topic.

I think that if Perl6 will make it and some 100 programmers will start using it for real projects, it will have the potential to become a language of the elitarian programmer.

However, Perl6 reminds me of PL1 (never programmed it). In a CS lesson, our prof gave two examples.

The biggest problem of PL/I was not the insane complex compiler, but the extensive TMTOWTDI!!! Various Programmers stuck with their preferenced programming paradigms, basically one programming in the "LISP-subset" of PL/I, the next in "ALGOL-PL/I", the next in "ADA-PL/I",...

I can remember of some article I read about comparing PL/I to languages and found, that it already does compare very well to Perl.

My best wishes for Perl6, but before our company starts to use it or migrate from Perl5 - many things have to happen first after the availability of P6...

Bye
 PetaMem     All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

In reply to My Strategy for Perl6 by PetaMem
in thread Perl6 syntax being too much complex? How we will teach and read that?! by gmpassos

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