The comments are interesting reflecting what the "slashdotting public" sees in Perl.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
Don't mistake "what some random fool on the Internet" posts on Slashdot for an opinion with any force or meaning or intent. There are a lot of people who've never written a program in their lives who like to post there in programming discussions.
Regrettably, there's no Statute of Limitations for the Court of Public Opinion. Lots of folks get crazy ideas in their head -- ideas which may even have been true at one time -- and those ideas stick. When Perl 6 comes out, there are still folks who are going to assume it's a scripting language. Hell, I constantly run into programmers who tell me that Perl can't do the things I'm doing every day.
Cheers,
Ovid
New address of my CGI Course.
Remember though that there are over six billion people in the world and a few dozen million programmers, at most. I don't particularly care if Perl 6 is "intuitive" for a COBOL or Python or Intercal or C++ programmer. I care that it's useful and learnable for a non-programmer while powerful and usable for an experienced programmer.