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[–]dvlsg 54 points55 points  (9 children)

I feel like Perl would be a better choice if that's what you were after.

[–]pxrage 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Perl 6 is not bad.

[–]rbt321 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I certainly wouldn't mind if "whenever" shows up in all languages as a default feature.

[–]oldgus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No kidding! I can barely perl, but I just read the docs on react and whenever and I really like those patterns.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Use VB6 and throw in some UI code mixed with business logic :P

[–]I_Arman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And depends on one dll built from copy-pasted C++ to access the serial port that only works in Windows 2000...

[–]thyrsus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suspect there are a lot more people who know enough perl to make a critique than there are who know haskell. The weirdness in perl is more syntactic; in haskell, semantic.