Perl6 must look for new people from Ruby, Python (and others) areas; IMO, if it hopes that Perl5 people will use Perl6, it will fail (at least, in next 3-4 years).
And there is a serious risk: Java 7 will have dynamic language support, so it will be hard to compete for Perl6.
I'd like to be wrong. What do you think?
time will tell
ResponderEliminarI have had to work with the "dynamic" features in C# 3.0 and they suck big time, I strongly doubt that Java will come up with something better, no need to worry about that
ResponderEliminarI think it's easy to talk, and hard to know what you're talking about.
ResponderEliminarWhat do I think? I think that you are asking how people feel about programming languages, and that's not a very interesting question.
ResponderEliminarWhat's interesting is what happens when people get their hands on Perl 6? If you had all of the flexibility and power of Perl 5 with all of the functional, parsing, metaprogramming and extensibility features of Perl 6 what would you accomplish?
That's the interesting question.