After listening to Damian Conway talk about Perl6, the same word comes to mind as when I read some of the apocalypses. Elegance These guys have taken Perl, added a select few concepts, run a few miles smiling and ended up with pure beauty (or beautz using a german kezboard). Maybe they didnôt run smiling, getting a decent design decent is painful. If you get it right the first time, you either havent got it right or you just forgot where you stole it. But Iôm sure they were smiling when they were done. Hello properties. Hello smart match. Hello exception handling.
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Actually, two more words come to mind; Power and Convenience. This is powerful, useful stuff. And wickedly cool sometimes. The mindset that "ok, we can do this, but thatôs not the general case. THIS is the general case, so letôs make that possible as well". And itôs convenient. I love the distinction between syntactic sugar and syntactic vitamins. Itôs the small things that matter, because itôs at that level behaviour is molded. Perl 6 -- Elegance, Power, Convenience.
/J
