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Nice, I was looking for one sometime back and the app based ones like amicus and robo pong cost around $2000

It would be great if you can add a few of those word games you have on the games page to the wars page

This looks great. Why have you priced the app at $2.99 I have been using Lumosity and they charge $79.99 per year across their website and app and they have very limited games on their app.

The good thing about perl 6 is that lots of ideas from there are getting back into perl 5 and believe it or not Haskell got a bit of a boost because of perl 6 (when the pugs project was in full swing).

Even if one of the projects implements the full perl 6 spec that exists today, there are very few perl 5 devs that will switch over ,If I were asked to guess it would be less than 5 %. Perl 6 as a language has to start at the bottom with other programming languages . The name perl6 was used because one of the reason (I am not sure of this) was to retain the name to get perl5 devs to move to the next version of the language and at that time perl5 was a dominant language.

Another perspective to look at is that perl6 was announced in early 2000 clojure came around 2007 , scala appeared around 2003. There are other languages like go and dart which have google backing that have come out.

So IMHO if you want to learn language design and the other things around it perl6 is a good playground you will learn and easy to get into the community but you will not get a job because of it. If you are a user of programming language who wants to use a language for solving a real world problem today (with libraries and get questions answered) or learn a language which will get you a job you will be better off with perl5 , php, ruby, python, scala, clojure or <insert your lang>

"real world" means different things for different people.

At this point how many companies do you know of that use perl6 to solve their business problem (may be as simple as a web app) ?. Has there been any job posting anywhere which are looking for perl6 devs?

I do not think structured classes is equivalent to being treated like a child.

It was intended as a general comment that some people might not like it and equate it like that based on his comment that only a fraction people actually attended it and maybe if it was made compulsory they might not like it and there is a probability that they will say that.

Just a point that what ever you do there will be some group that will not like it .

You say encourage to challenge themselves (Internal) and then say the course must challenge them (external factor). In any course the basics are thought and the student must take it on themselves to learn more and ask when they do not understand. If you have played any sport the basics are easy but you spend time and practice so if your coach says hit the ball from 10 yards and if you feel that is easy you can move back to hit the ball from further why do you expect the coach to tell you that.You can ask the prof for more complex examples or use the homework in a real world example. This seems to be a case about he gets the same marks as me and I know a lot more than him.

I disagree I do not know calculus and would not have done this class if that was the case. I am now implementing ML in my day to day work . Anybody can make ML difficult , the greatness is in making it easy for people to use it and that makes a real world impact IMHO