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]

Ruby is the only language I've ever used that's so OO that you can actually call methods directly on literals

What, Java doesn't count? Strings are objects, just not numbers. (Although I wouldn't be surprised if that was added in Java 6.)

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't realize you could call methods on Java string literals. It's not something that's come up for me in practice.

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Java 5 and 6 have autoboxing, which can implicitly convert between object and primitive types for numbers in some circumstances. But that doesn't extend to letting you call methods on literal numbers unfortunately.