Why should I learn Perl 6? What's so great about it?
Perl 6 unifies many great ideas that aren't usually found in other programming languages. While several other languages offer some of these features, none of them offer all.
> Unlike most languages, it offers cleaned up regular expressions PEG like grammars for parsing lazy lists a powerful meta object system junctions of values easy access to higher-order functional features like partial > application and currying separate mechanism for subtyping (inheritance) and code reuse > (role application) optional type annotations powerful run-time multi dispatch for both subroutines and methods based on arity, types and additional code constraints lexical imports
It also offers closures anonymous types roles and traits named arguments nested signatures object unpacking in signatures intuitive, nice syntax (unlike Lisp) easy to understand, explicit scoping rules (unlike Python) a strong meta object system that does not rely on eval (unlike Ruby) expressive routine signatures (unlike Perl 5) state variables named regexes for easy reuse unlike many dynamic languages, calls to missing subroutines are caught at compile time, and in some cases even signature mismatches can be caught at compile time.