On Monday, 18 July 2016 at 11:05:34 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 05:50:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 02:59:42AM +0000, Nobody via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Perl 6.
Are you serious? Perl is the *prime* example of "unprincipled
and complex". Larry Wall himself said (in print, no less):
English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a
mess,
it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess,
which
we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess,
though in the nicest of all possible ways. -- Larry Wall
T
1. Perl 6 is not Perl.
2. Perl 6 is better designed language than D will ever be.
3. Perl 6 is complex, but not complicated. I think people
sometimes confuse the two.
4. D is a failed language, regardless of how people choose to
categorize its attributes.
There are some interesting discussions about Perl 6[1][2]. They
remind me of the discussions about D. Apart from some irrational
points (the logo!), the fact that it took 15 years figures
prominently - and people complain about its features that were so
carefully designed. I don't know Perl 6 and cannot comment on the
validity of that criticism.
[1]
http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-use-perl-6.html
[2]
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Perl-6-considered-to-be-a-disaster
