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From:
John M. Dlugosz
Date:
May 27, 2009 15:22
Subject:
Re: Amazing Perl 6
Message ID:
2241-19871@sneakemail.com
Mark J. Reed markjreed-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
>> Well, you really made me realize that I'm looking for things that make
>> me impressed, and probably I don't get impressed that easy nowadays ;)
>>
>
> Well, maybe you should relax your expectations. People who haven't
> been following P6 development for the last near-decade may be
> impressed by stuff that seems trivial to veterans. :)
>
> I really like the factorial example on the wiki page. That really
> gets across the expressiveness of P6, without being too hard to
> understand despite its brevity. It's not often you find an elegant
> yet non-recursive solution to that problem.
>
> I do think captures are inherently impressive, but not easy to explain...
>
>
"captures are inherently impressive, but not easy to explain..." Since
nobody's done so yet, I suppose so.
As for fun and expressive, have you seen my APL and Lisp inspired
stuff? In the latter, I found out for myself just how expressive it is
in a deep appreciation I didn't have before. In particular, why is the
Perl 6 version even shorter than Lisp? Because it has the fully
overarching self-descriptive features, but lets you leave out excess
verbage.
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