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And Perl 6 is 24

• draegtun 14y ago
  Considering perl5 is only 18 years old then somethings gone very awry there :) Perl6 is looking quite fresh considering how old you think it is. I just submitted an article I'd seen to HN which shows how a formula like... 4.7kΩ ± 5% ... can be parsed inline with Perl6 code. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939204 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939204
  • indubitably 14y ago
    I was just joking :) It's interesting to me how often people cite "Unicode in code" as some sort of amazing thing. I once posted on S.O. about the idea that maybe we should have a programming language where the vast array of options in Unicode were exploited to make things like Regular Expressions more readable (avoiding the backslash plague alone would be worth it). I got smacked down by people complaining that they didn't know how to type anything but ASCII. Sigh.
    • draegtun 14y ago
      Jokes tend to get downvoted on HN and there's been a few (to many) jokes in this HN post :( Your's the only one I didn't downvote because decided to leave a comment instead. re: Unicode - Perl6 does already use unicode characters for some of its operators. Take the Hyperoperator »« (http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html#Hyper_operators http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html#Hyper_operators): my @a = 1..5; my @b = 6..10; my @c = @a »*« @b; # => 6, 14, 24, 36, 50 And there are >> & << synonyms for those who find using unicode chars too odd: @c>>++; # => 7, 15, 25, 37, 5
      • indubitably 14y ago
        Italicizing "jokes" is a very serious accusation.