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Why? You can do anything client side in any language Not familiar with the lore behind why it would interesting in the language formerly known as Perl Did it
by vmception 5y ago
Why? You can do anything client side in any language
Not familiar with the lore behind why it would interesting in the language formerly known as Perl
Did it lack cryptography libraries for a long time or was it notoriously bad at something?
- vlovich123 5y agoPerl has a reputation (justifiably IMO) for the default being unreadable/unmaintainable code, particularly because almost everything was done with regular expressions. The author is referring to this when juxtaposing it with it being used for a financial system.
- unixhero 5y agoRaku is not the old Perl, so I think it is unfair to bring up the patterns of Perl 5.x and earlier. Pretty exciting to see a real use case for Raku/Perl6, and for it to be as heavy as Ethereum code imho.