Montezuma123

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by Montezuma123 11y ago
100 year language might be meant seriously by some people, but I meant it as something that has enough powerful concepts to stay relevant for a long time. It harks back to Paul Graham's essay where he started off on Arclisp as a 100 ye
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Learning Perl6. It will be the continuation of Learning Perl, but for Perl6 instead of Perl5 I think. My bet is they'll (last edition had 3 authors)continue to publish both as both languages will survive for a long time until Perl6 win
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
I can't count the # of times a super helpful question was closed on StackOverflow for being "off topic" or being likely to cause a flame war. I do like Perl Monks, but wish the format was a little different UI wise. Def still
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Ah, yes you are correct. Thanks for pointing out some of the finer historical notes! I bet there are plenty of people here that would be impressed to know how much P6 has to do with Haskell. I think the general impression isn't one of
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Brian D Foy has a WordPress site up for Learning Perl6 with some pretty random blog articles. I'd say he's 1-2 years from publishing which is both frustrating and good. The language should be solid by then.
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
I will say that I started using Perl5 recently (big python fan). I expected everything to be crusty and bad. CPAN worked great, and the doc...my GOSH the doc is sooo good. It is everywhere. In my command-line, gazzillions of websites. I for
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Haskell had a big influence on Perl6. Lazy evaluation is built in to the language just like Haskell. If you look at the bottom of the Perl6 website you'll see the Fibonacci sequence using a lazy infinite list. Fun fact, one of the orig
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Answering your question: I haven't heard of anything in PROD yet (there is a QUORA question on this), but I know there are several Perl shops that would jump on this when it's fully ready. You can use it today for most things (ass
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Damian Conway (Perl5 frequent contributor) is a professor who knows and has taught Lisp classes. He made a good point that although Lisp is powerful in it's own way, you don't get a lot of information by simply glancing at some co
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
Yea I think the JVM backend was broken recently by a patch (if I remember correctly), but should be fixed soon if not already. I'm surprised it actually works so well when MoarVM isn't 100% done. I assume the JVM would allow you t
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by Montezuma123 11y ago
I for one am extremely excited for Perl6's ecosystem to grow, documentation to increase, and for the performance optimizations to reach maturity. Perl5 has raw text processing power, but Perl6 kicks that into overdrive with a much clea