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by zzzcpan 2488 days ago
> What other language does everything P6 does?

Why would any language do what Perl 6 does? Languages do what they need and typically do at least some things Perl 6 doesn't do and at least some things do better than Perl 6 does them. Sometimes such things are much more important to people than everything Perl 6 does.

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You’re ignoring the comment two above you. The suggestion was that there are no uses for Perl 6. That implies there’s at least one language that does what it does. There is not.

If you need real rational number math and are doing a lot of text processing for example, there might not be a better alternative.

What's that noise? It feels like conceptual potential being poured down a drain. It kindof goes "blub, blub, blub..."