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by bitcracker 15y ago
> as soon as they interact with another quantum particle, the wave collapses into a single point, and then starts traveling as a wave again starting from the point of collapse. What does "collapse" mean? Is it the overlapping or "sum" o
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by bitcracker 15y ago
If you think that MOP for Perl is something big then I'm not surprised that Perl doesn't make real progress anymore.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> marketing of perl core dev is terrible A link "Current Developments" in perl.org would be helpful. Thanks for the links but I'm not interested in minor changes of Perl 5 (Unicode etc.). I was very interested in the new features of Per
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> you'll see that Perl 5 is far from stagnant. You mean CPAN is far from stagnant. CPAN is nice, yes, but I don't think CPAN alone is enough to invite newcomers to Perl. Perl 5 itself is stagnant. New features are not developed in Per
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> That sounds like a hiring and training question. Yes, Fortran, APL and Ada had the same questions.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> I would never attempt to maintain code written in a language I don't know. I know Perl 5 well enough but will my successors also? Is Perl still rising? I don't think so.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Anyone using Perl 6? What is your experience? Is it mature enough for serious use or should we stay with Perl 5? This article http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6 shows a glimps of the features of Perl 6.
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by bitcracker 15y ago
> The great downfall of Perl is that it's slow: What about Perl6 and LLVM? My personal experience with Perl5: - It has incomparable expressiveness. Only APL is more expressive. But more expressiveness makes source code less readable. -
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by bitcracker 15y ago
You don't need Shen features in Clojure because the Shen team aims to provide a compiler for KLambda which is a very small subset of Lisp. It should be no problem to implement KLambda in Clojure. Quote from https://groups.google.com/group/
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Haskell demonstrates the difference between theory and practice. What does it matter if an arbitrary language X is beautiful in theory if nobody uses it in practice because they don't comprehend it? Consider all those theoretically beautifu
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by bitcracker 15y ago
Great Message! Who is mocked? Everyone who tries Linux with Kernel 3.1 the first time will think: Wow, Linux today is where Windows was 1992 :-)