A bit of a digression around marketing/evangelizing
> When I wanted to learn DataScience, courses using R and Python were > readily available. Even though I had been using Perl for 20 years, I did > not even know where to start in the Perl ecosystem! > I've wondered why PDL isn't more popular, more of a thing in the wide world of science. https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL And PDL was very much in mind during the early & mid design stages of Perl6. There's a huge opportunity for Perl6 to be a great platform for data science if it can add PDL's data-crunching performance & expressiveness to its already wonderful concurrency models. -y
