Re^3: What is Perl6?

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I think you've got some sampling bias in your definition of "just works". Perl does not "just work" in many places where Java, C#, JavaScript, and even (shudder) PHP "just work". We'd like to fix that so that Perl 6 "just works" all those places too.

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Re^4: What is Perl6? by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Dec 05, 2010 at 08:47 UTC
This systems-hound (unix-ish expectations) is busted, fair and square. I've recently had to do a bunch of perl5 work in the Win32 world (via Strawberry as it happens), including full-blown GUI support. I ran into more stuff that broke perl than I would have ever imagined. But mostly, this is because the environment was breaking POSIX. Live and learn. I think the primary point of my original comment was that I'd like to minimize those kinds of surprises (multi-platform abstraction) as well as minimize language surprises (i.e. sorry, this is not your flavor of perl6). The test suite evolving around the current specification gives me hope. Cheers, Matt	[reply]
Re^4: What is Perl6? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2010 at 20:53 UTC
What are your thoughts on these comments in the Link about perl ?	[reply]

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