I want in. I'm working on a production project for cloud computing that fuses 5 and 6 together. It's proving very useful...
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Damian Conway <dam...@conway.org> wrote: > > Dear fellow revellers in the dawning Golden Age of Perl 6, > > I just had a colleague contact me, to express their surprise that Perl 6 > does not rate a mention in: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming. > > The Perl 6 community (and Larry in particular) has already done an > incredible job raising Perl 6's profile on rosettacode.org, but the > language still seems under-represented on Wikipedia, especially on > the various pages describing different language paradigms. > > As Perl 6 is now the pre-eminent example of the imperative, > declarative, functional, parallel, concurrent, pipelined, vector, > object-oriented, aspect-oriented, reactive, introspective, and > metaprogramming paradigms, surely it should be mentioned > on all those wiki pages? > > Yeah, I know: "Thanks for volunteering!". I can't at present, but I > didn't want this important observation, or the opportunity it > represents, to be lost, just because it was initially directed at > someone who's currently drowning in other commitments. > > So I thought I'd mention it here, in the hope that someone else > who is looking for a slightly unusual way to contribute to Perl 6 > might find the suggestion worth considering. > > Damian >
