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by snapdangle 2745 days ago
Duke Nukem Forever jokes, really? Look, Perl 6 can either be a "crazy complex" language that is "over-designed" and "hard to read", or it can some sort of toy with laughable complexity (your supposition is that Perl 6 is to elite programmers as Duke Nukem Forever is to elite gamers).

So which is it? Complex enough for only elites to grasp? Or just some toy language with no real capabilities, let alone unique features of interest to elite programmers?
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herrosheep 2744 days ago
I think you misunderstood or are trolling. This is a Haskell to Perl 6 guide. Haskell is for the elite programmers. Perl 6 is the Duke Nukem Forever of programming languages. This of course was all tongue in cheek.
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snapdangle 2742 days ago
Sorry dude, but the crux of your joke is that elite programmers shouldn't look at Perl 6.. because it took a while to develop?

And it is hardly "tongue in cheek" when you talk trash about the language (which you have never used) throughout this news item.

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