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I'm pretty sure that the "expression-lambdas" were inspired by Haskell, where you get a lambda simply by writing an operator with one or more missing operands. In Perl 6, detecting…

Come on now, it's clear that he meant to compare CPAN to the corresponding module repositories of those other languages.

That looks like strict nominal run-time type checking to me, not static typing.

> Why would I learn this rather than Haskell? You wouldn't. That is to say: You might learn Haskell if you want do write 100% functional code, and Perl 6 if you want to write imper…

> Is the worst thing you can say about Python that it forces you to indent your code? That's an unduly simplistic argument. "Indentation that looks clean" and "Indentation that ful…

The author of that snippet was probably just trying to demonstrate multi-method dispatch using a familiar example; I don't think that's how people would actually calculate Fibonacc…

Late for what, exactly? Do people no longer write code? Because if they do, some of them might might choose to use Perl 6 for that, and that's all the success a programming languag…