ynotds's Journal: Perl 6

Perl 6 was already very interesting even before Larry Wall's Apoclypse 5 brought us regexes we can build grammars on and that has sure stirred up the excitement level, as evidenced by this week's Perl 6 Digest (from which there doesn't seem to be a link to other recent P6P Digests, not that I could afford the time if there was).

To me, Perl 6 with it's strong linguistic roots has emerged as the great hope for tackling two major development objectives:

• integrating open ended functionality definition within a content management framework (and here I need to also keep in mind the need for CVS or Subversion equivalent functionality)
• enough analysis of natural (and other) language to make serious inroads on redundancy problems including both deliberate and inadvertent resubmission

If only there was time to draw an updated road map.