Re: Why aren't you using Perl 6 yet?

I'm not aware of any compelling reason to use it. Maybe if there were a post of all the reasons I should want to use it...

5. In a year, prospective employers will require three years' programming experience in it
4. Line noise twice as likely to compile
3. Have to know it if you want to help write the next version of Haskell
2. Cow orkers are beginning to be able to read Perl 5
1. It's almost Ruby!

Ok, kidding aside, why?

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Re^2: Why aren't you using Perl 6 yet? by revdiablo (Prior) on May 25, 2005 at 16:33 UTC
Ok, kidding aside, why? Since this has gone unanswered, I'll give it a shot. Here are some of my reasons for playing with Pugs (and note that this is an unordered list on purpose): It's a lot of fun tracking a fast-moving project Especially when you submit bug reports that get fixed less than 24 hours later The new language seems to be very nice, if the snippets of code I've written for Pugs are any indication It's a nice way to learn Perl 6 gradually, "just for fun" I have a feeling that following the development of the language and implementation will help immensely later on Just by finding bugs and checking in test cases, I get my name in the AUTHORS file ;-)	[reply]

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Re^2: Why aren't you using Perl 6 yet?
by revdiablo (Prior) on May 25, 2005 at 16:33 UTC

Ok, kidding aside, why?

Since this has gone unanswered, I'll give it a shot. Here are some of my reasons for playing with Pugs (and note that this is an unordered list on purpose):

It's a lot of fun tracking a fast-moving project

Especially when you submit bug reports that get fixed less than 24 hours later

The new language seems to be very nice, if the snippets of code I've written for Pugs are any indication
It's a nice way to learn Perl 6 gradually, "just for fun"
I have a feeling that following the development of the language and implementation will help immensely later on
Just by finding bugs and checking in test cases, I get my name in the AUTHORS file ;-)

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