[PRL] Perl 6

[Joe Marshall]

Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> Tonight Damian Conway (Monash U, Aus) spoke on Perl 6 in Dodge.
> I still consider Perl >= 5 to be  a language that's far more
> "innovative" (*)
> than anything with Java or J in it. It's kind of sad that only four PL
> people
> showed up. -- Matthias
>
> (*) Perl is probably the first language in widespread use with closures,
> functions, object systems, pattern matching, etcetc. It's interesting
> to see
> how they reach wide audience and how they are catching up with things
> that our side of the world have been studying. I give it a couple of
> more
> iterations and they'll see the value of () :-)

Perl makes me physically ill, I didn't want to disrupt the proceedings.

Was your interest in this masochism, schadenfeude, or just slumming?