FWIW, Jupyter can also be used with Perl 6, though surely we ought to
advertise it more broadly.
While I am not an expert in R, My observation about the specific features
that I use often in R and its equivalence in Perl is as follows.
- The *apply functions, Technically it is similar to Perl's map/grep and
friends.
- Magrittr: Perl5 has no equivalent function, Perl6 has the pipe
A bit of a digression around marketing/evangelizing
> When I wanted to learn DataScience, courses using R and Python were
> readily available. Even though I had been using Perl for 20 years, I did
> not even know where to start in the Perl ecosystem!
>
I've wondered why PDL isn't more popular, m
Thank you for your insightful comment Vijay. You’re right.
Perl6’s evangelists will typically be current Perlers who are running up
against Perl5’s limitations.
So I think you’ve circumscribed the issue: what is Perl6 for?
* Perl6 could be “better than Go” for microservices – IF it’s easy
