So, as a tool, what specific niches will Perl 6 be targetting at?

Unlike PHP, which is a tool just to make web sites, Perl (5 or 6) is a general-purpose programming language suitable for many different tasks and targets no specific niche.

That is not to say that it is not a great tool for web apps, especially because as a "scripting language" it allows rapid prototyping and make it easy to create "glue code" to pull together systems (such as an HTML form and a DB backend) and through the more specialized extensions/modules that target that particular "niche" (templating engines, mod_perl, CGI frameworks, the DBI and so on).

And as a side note, I hope the trend towards web-based applications comes to an end soon, at least as far pure HTML-based solutions are concerned. While they are obviously much easier to deploy and maintain, the user experience with a "fat" client is much better, I think. Maybe Java applets or XUL can improve this somewhat.

In reply to Re: Perl 6 and trend towards web-based applications by Thilosophy
in thread Perl 6 and trend towards web-based applications by kiat

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