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5^6 is 15625 and I think that would have been a better use of a future version number

It is built on an ioloop and has a special emphasis on making websockets and other streaming communications easy.

This is the point that I can't get anyone to see. So what if they provide history? They can take it away at any point too. So what have you accomplished?!

Perl 6 looks very promising. It was an attempt to brush up Perl 5 but became its own language with a very unfortunate name (read: Perl 6 will not replace Perl 5). It has some very …

Those presentations were abhorrent and the conference should be embarrassed for giving such a buffoon the stage (twice!). He doesn't know the language and then lampoons it when he …

Giving that one a try too. Thanks for the link.

And by the way, no I'm really not interested in generally helping with a language I don't use. What I object to is the Perl6 community siphoning off Perl5 oxygen and then using it …

You'll notice that that irc log is just me saying october what I'm saying now. The release was botched. Had I had any idea of the lackluster release that was to come I would have h…

I think the biggest problem Perl6 faces now is the perception that it is unfinished. This is mostly a problem of their own making. The language was in development for 15 years! In …