Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

2016-09-07 Thread Joseph Garvin
For the last couple weeks I've been experimenting with Perl6 because I finally became sufficiently annoyed with Python's lack of real (No GIL) threading and a quick inspection of the Perl6 feature list looked promising. I'm trying to keep an open mind because Perl is pretty culturally different tha

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

2016-09-07 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi Joseph Welcome, and I hope you'll stick around. Now, I haven't had the time to dig into Perl 6 myself, only to poke at it from time to time. But, while waiting for people who know something to respond, I'll ask you to be a little concise in certain areas. * I can find no concise easy-to-und