What I see as the major and qualifying differences between P6/Parrot and CGI/XML/DBI etc., are:
- The numbers of people that can in any way qualify as experts in the former is in the order of 10 or 20.
For all the 'others' it is hundreds or even thousands. It may be that there are only 10s of truely expert people, for any given 'other', but the vast majority of questions that are going to be asked are within the experience of 100s or 100s.
- There are dozens(?) books available for all the 'others'.
The one Parrot book available was (through necessity) more a statement of intent rather than a definitive reference work.
- There are FAQs for all the 'others'.
- There is a mass of example code, for all the 'others'.
- There are IRC forums, usenet forum, online tutorials, a zillion modules on CPAN. etc. etc.
P6 and Parrot have (almost) none of these.
I happen to believe that P6 is doing something important and unique, and is the Perl of the future. I also think that PerlMonk's is the premiere site of it's type for Perl, or any language.
It seems to me that using the latter, to provide a showcase for it's popularisation and dissemination of teh former, to the wider Perl audience, is natural and desirable step.
To that end, I'd be more than happy to see one or more of Snippets Section, Code catacombs, and Cool Uses For Perl disappear or be amalgamated to provide a home for a P6/Parrot section.
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