Re^2: Perl 6 and performance

The price of a pint of beer was around about Ł2 ten years ago, should I base my expectations on the price I should expect to pay tonight on what it was a decade ago?

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Re^3: Perl 6 and performance by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 09, 2012 at 16:34 UTC
Bud Lite was terrible beer ten years ago; reasonable people assume that it is still terrible. In any case, useful programming languages usually come from single designers/implementors with clear visions: Ritchie and C, Stroustrup and C++, Wall and Perl, van Rossum and Python, Matzumoto and Ruby. The others come from massive corporate money: Microsoft and C#, Sun and Java.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl 6 and performance by Jenda (Abbot) on Feb 10, 2012 at 15:35 UTC
Useful ne liked_by_educated_foo I won't defend the machine that goes ping, but I do believe there's actually more hype and less usefulness in Ruby than in C#. Now the first version of C# was way too conservative (so as not to surprise and frighten the old-school C/C++ programmers), but the current version with generics, lambdas and type inference is pretty nice. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]