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Perl 6 continues linguist Larry Wall's vision of making a very expressive language that matches the way humans think.

To me the most unique aspect is Perl 6's unicode string handling which is probably the best unicode support of any language out there. I could see it catching on in niches that need to do heavy cross-characterset text processing.



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