I'm probably the least qualified person to critisize Perl6. But I clearly remember the first stabbing pain that told me it was going to be something different than first advertised. Parrot sort of fell out of view, and you needed a pre-compiled version of Haskell to compile Perl6. I hate the idea of requiring a precompiled binary to compile another binary...... it just makes me feel like the NSA is behind it all. :-)

I won't bother with Perl6 until the Haskell stuff is out of the picture. I don't hate Haskell, but Perl5 compiles directly from C, and I'll never trust precompiled compilers. (And yes I know I can compile Haskell, but dosn't it take like 20 hours to compile? )

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

In reply to Re: What's wrong with Perl 6? by zentara
in thread What's wrong with Perl 6? by duff

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