Test-driving a Porsche: Arc or Perl 6?
mechanical_fish: Like many people, I used to really like Perl 5 and I wrote some important code in it, though I feel that I never really understood a lot of its remote corners. But all I've seen of Perl 6 is its Wikipedia page, which I have just read. And now, for some reason, the image from this article is stuck in my mind:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_brother_where_art_thou"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball."Somehow, Wikipedia's definition of the second-system effect feels incomplete without a link to Perl 6.I'd play with Arc. It's small, young, designed to be comprehensible, and based on one classic language instead of on all of them at once.