The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread Parrot Raiser
Perl 6 is awesome. Its design is based on the combined experience of many clever people. It addresses a whole range of contemporary computing problems, in fields as diverse as text processing and compiler development. It's being developed by, and for, some of the smartest people I want to risk app

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hallo Parrot, we are well aware that the documentation for Perl 6 is quite lacking. Any contributions in that area are greatly appreciated. Am 23.05.2012 01:35, schrieb Parrot Raiser: The problem we have is to provide a path for learning 6, that presents a comprehensible but useful subset of

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread B. Estrade
First, yes, Perl 6 is awesome. Everything that's come out as a result of this effort is awesome. The rest is inline below. On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:32:35AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Hallo Parrot, > > we are well aware that the documentation for Perl 6 is quite lacking. > Any contributions i

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread Siddhant Saraf
Hello Estarde, (since I'm the 'new' guy in the community, I think only I have the energy to explain it to you :-) Well, try to think of Perl 6 as a human. Of course you can change a person's name, but who will go to the trouble of it all? eh? After all, we all know how some Mr. XYZ father likes t

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread Moritz Lenz
> My point is that while it > started out as a way to improve/formalize Perl 5, it's developed > sufficiently to the point where it is its own language and not the > "next" version of 'perl'. But it is still a version of Perl. It might not be the "next" version of Perl, but it certainly the sixth