I want in. I'm working on a production project for cloud computing that fuses
5 and 6 together. It's proving very useful...
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> On Feb 25, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Damian Conway 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
>