in reply to ONLamp article: Perl 6 discussion

As the author of that blog entry, feel free to hit me up with any questions you may have. I'll try to answer them. I deliberately kept the discussion of new Perl6 features short lest folks get overwhelmed, so what I wrote was simplistic.

On a side note, I'm moving to the UK on Tuesday and I'm packing like mad and saying my goodbyes, so if I don't answer right away, I trust you'll be understanding :)

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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try-a-be programmers
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2006 at 18:17 UTC
    Well, I love Perl (I am refering to Perl 5).

    I am one of those try-a-be programmer (it's different from wannabe because I actually tried hard), I tried to be a programmer by learning (or trying to learn) so many different languages (c,c++,objective,python, tcl, ... and the list goes on)

    And this is why I thought a lot about what makes someone want to learn a language, and even more, what makes people who are less knowlegeable than me, be real-productive programmers, using in my opinion lesser tools or languages, like PHP comapred to Perl or Tcl (I am a huge Tcl fan) or MySql comapared to Postgresql.

    And the answer is, they succeeded because unlike me, programming for them was not a goal, it was a mean to get to goal, which was, building the database or website or utility they wanted. For me, programming is for itself, a goal in itself.

    So my question is,junctions or traits, excite the likes of me, but for those lesser beings, undereducated, real programmers, what would make them wonna learn or use Perl6?
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