Perl 6

[prog]

I feel the gentle winds of conventional wisdom buffeting me towards Ruby.

Is there a practical reason why I might want to do this? Coz if I learned it just for S&G but then didn't immediately start using it for serious, I'd forget it.

"Dude, Rails" is not a sufficient reason, unless you can tell me why I'd want to use Rails over any Mason-based solution.

(Referring to Ruby as "Perl 6" is from xach, and the funniest in-joke I've heard all week.)

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Is there ever a practical reason for learning a programming language when you already know several that would 'do the job'?

Sure, if a new language would 'do the job' better than the ones you know. Where 'better' means you could do it more quickly, or it would be more maintainable, or more efficient, or whatever.