Re: Re: (A6) Perl 6, a general-purpose language?

[Anonymous Monk]

I'm not really saying that Perl should become a language you can write an OS in

Good, because anything you can write a half-decent operating system in is NOT a general purpose programming language. It would be far too low-level to be useful.

Perl, on the other hand, is definately general purpose. If you want evidence of this, look at the CPAN. Image/audio manipulation to web crawling to processing hundreds of file formats to cgi scripts to mod_perl to natural language processing and back again. If that isn't general purpose, what is?

[crenz]

Good, because anything you can write a half-decent operating system in is NOT a general purpose programming language. It would be far too low-level to be useful.

Yes, that's why I am always astonished why people keep on writing apps in C ;-)

[Anonymous Monk]

I'm not sure if you mean that sarcastically or not, but it is true. 98% of apps written in c, should not be. A higher level language (such as Perl) would save on development costs, produce far more stable/secure code while meeting performance requirements.

Then again, if companies want to be stupid, it's not my money they're losing.