BenGoldberg

You consider Perl's map and grep to be awkward?

The stuff which makes perl really awesome are the distributions on CPAN.

Many (though not all) of these distributions contain XS, which is a type of glue between perl and C. Most of these XS distributions are there to link to some library -- Math::GMP, for example, lets perl code use the GNU gmp multi precision math library.

Without some way to make use of distributions with XS parts, then a perl to $other_language_here transpiler is not going to be very interesting.

Themgt, it's obviously a matter of legality, not practicality.

Chrome's rules are that no plugins in their store may do illegal things, so if Youtube says that Streamus isn't compliant, then Streamus can't be in the Chrome Web Store.

That doesn't prevent us who already have the plugin from continuing to use it, it's merely a violation of youtube's license agreement to do so.

2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially announces the date on which it will launch for production use.

You consider awk, sed, and bash to be better programming languages than perl? You're funny.

One might even say that Fortran is still winning!