Hi, If you allow me to jump in.
I have used scores of programming languages. For me, raku (as it is now called) is the language to go to if I need a serious textual analysis of any kind. The design aspect of the language that I rely on heavily is the Grammar class, which so fundamentally augments the notion of regular expression that it allows me to make transformations of data that would be very much harder in other languages.
Other people will have other motivations, I am sure. good luck, Theo van den Heuvel Radhakrishnan Venkataraman schreef op 2020-06-14 17:04:
Hi, I had been a perl 5.0 user in the past. Ever since perl 6.0 was announced, I waited, like many, indefinitely. At last perl 6.0 has just started from its starting block and is also in the race. I am happy about that. Perl 5.0 was generally termed to be good at CGI scripting, system administration, web scraping, strong regex, processing text files etc., I want to know what perl 6 is so special in. When perl 5.0 was there, there did not exist any other language to do the same things easily as perl 5.0 did. Similarly, in which areas perl 6 is special? I am unable to know it from google search, as much information is not available. Further, if concurrency and parallelism are the special things in perl 6, then Rust and Go (so special in both concurrency and parallelism) are already spreading its wings over the information technology field. Both are statically typed and compiled languages and there would be more "welcome gesture" for these languages in the field. To put my question simply, where is the space for perl 6 in today's technology? Please enlighten me (any body from user group) on this. Thank you, Regards, Radhakrishnan
