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Perl 6 for Mere Mortals

Curtis “Ovid” Poe

Perl 6 for Mere Mortals

Curtis Poe's FOSDEM talk arguing that day-to-day Perl 6 is far simpler than its enthusiasts' talk of exotic features suggests. He compares basic math and string handling across languages.

Offered as a pragmatic, convincing counter to the idea that Perl 6 is too strange to use.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2015

Topics

  • Python, Ruby & scripting languages
  • Programming language design

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