I agree that getting Perl6 into the curricula is a good idea, and comparing it to Python if done reasonably and politely would help the cause of those who want to migrate their course over.
That said I don't think that those fine folk on Perlmonks are all that correct about the lack of a business case for Perl6, and the degree to which they are will fall significantly in the next few years. Already its trivial to use most modules on the CPAN with Inline::Perl5 (given a perl5 built with -fPIC) and the NativeCall library makes C libraries easy to use with relatively simple declarations. There are tooling, speed, portability and stability issues to be sorted but in all these cases I think the future looks brighter for v6. Businesses need to keep an eye out for what's next and while I wouldn't bet the farm on one language, it seems reasonable to bet the back paddock on v6. Just my 2c. Don't flame me bro'! On 20 January 2016 at 14:25, vijayvithal jahagirdar <jahagirdar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree, perl6 can be the glue language in academics which can be used to > showcase different computing concepts, be it methodologies - functional, > oops,procedural -, parallelism, VM, antlr etc. > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:29 AM Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> wrote: >> >> I have seen Damian demonstrate how Perl 6 can be the best language for >> teaching functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming. >> >> On 1/19/2016 10:37 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: >> > I very much agree with this idea, of arguing Perl 6 as a teaching >> > language. Academia are the ones that would appreciate what Perl 6 >> > offers the most in the short term, whereas industry would demand a >> > higher standard for it becoming popular. And the first can lead to >> > the second. -- Darren Duncan >> > >> > On 2016-01-19 9:19 AM, Parrot Raiser wrote: >> >> I believe Damian Conway thinks P6 would be a very good CS teaching >> >> language. >> >> >> >> On 1/19/16, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Steve Mynott >> >>> <steve.myn...@gmail.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> I think targeting Perl 6 at CS academic teachers is an excellent idea >> >>>> as a way of generally promoting use of the language. >> >>>> >> >>>> But I'd be wary of "bashing" current choices such as Python and don't >> >>>> believe any objective comparison of the two languages is possible. >> >>>> >> >>>> Python is in any case derived from ABC which was explicitly designed >> >>>> for teaching purposes. >> >>> >> >>> I'm not suggesting bashing Python, Steve, I just think some comparison >> >>> is necessary. >> > >> >
