Jesus, it's hideous. I'm suddenly less enthusiastic about Perl 6, and I can't even articulate a good reason for it. I'm just very turned off by the site.
First instinct was to compare against websites of other programming languages, and (despite the poor choice of mascot) it occurs to me that I'm not really sure what a good programming language website would look like...
Cheers to that! Every programming language home page should have a quick way of getting to simple sample code. Erlang does a decent job of this: "Getting Started" -> "Getting started quickly" gives you source right away. Most P/L sites do not make it easy to find a code sample.
Awful, be cause it looks awful. Well designed, because that's gotta be one of the most clearly laid out sites I've ever seen on the Internet. You can find everything you want and that is of relevance to start getting involved in Perl 6. The download button is right there, but surrounded by things you ought to know first (about the Perl 6 community, documentation, and current efforts.) All in all, the site looks incredibly inviting to new people, and represents a nice 'odd-one-out' from the typical stuff you see on the web. You know, stuff that tries to look fancy, or cramp as much irrelevant information as possible into site.
Given that what Perl 6 now needs is new guys to work on the project, this site is nicely done.
Congratulations, Perl 6, if the language looks anything like the site, it will still look just as awful as Perl 5, but it will be much nicer to read and understand.
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Python: http://www.python.org/
Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/
Erlang: http://erlang.org/
Perl5: http://www.perl.org/
PHP: http://www.php.net/
http://www.squeak.org/
Cheers to that! Every programming language home page should have a quick way of getting to simple sample code. Erlang does a decent job of this: "Getting Started" -> "Getting started quickly" gives you source right away. Most P/L sites do not make it easy to find a code sample.
Awful, be cause it looks awful. Well designed, because that's gotta be one of the most clearly laid out sites I've ever seen on the Internet. You can find everything you want and that is of relevance to start getting involved in Perl 6. The download button is right there, but surrounded by things you ought to know first (about the Perl 6 community, documentation, and current efforts.) All in all, the site looks incredibly inviting to new people, and represents a nice 'odd-one-out' from the typical stuff you see on the web. You know, stuff that tries to look fancy, or cramp as much irrelevant information as possible into site.
Given that what Perl 6 now needs is new guys to work on the project, this site is nicely done.
Congratulations, Perl 6, if the language looks anything like the site, it will still look just as awful as Perl 5, but it will be much nicer to read and understand.