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by draegtun 14y ago
One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl. Some refs: - http://pdl.perl.org/ - http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-p... - http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-t.
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by draegtun 14y ago
Io ( http://iolanguage.org/ ) shares the same differential inheritance has NewtonScript: Polygon := Object clone do( sides := 10 ) Triangle := Polygon clone Triangle sides println # => 10 Triangle sides := 3 Triangl
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by draegtun 14y ago
In the Perl/Moose world, class variables (attributes) are regarded as a broken concept : http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=690482 ref: stvn == "Stevan Little" who is the creator of Moose ( https://metacpan.org/module/Moose ) & and
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Phasers set to stun (Perl6 phasers)(perl6advent.wordpress.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Just watched a video about Array programming which mentions APL and J. It also mentioned a couple of interesting facts about Ken Iverson I'd not heard elsewhere: 1 - Iverson originally wanted to call his new language Iverson's Better Mat
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Array programming for mere mortals [video](youtube.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Also: - Planet Perl Iron Man: http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ - Planet Lisp: http://planet.lisp.org/ - Planet Clojure: http://planet.clojure.in/
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The 2012 Perl 6 Coding Contest(strangelyconsistent.org)
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by draegtun 14y ago
The speed improvement is a bonus because the real benefit is it being an easy to install & use app/module (the only dependency is Perl). If I was after bigger speed bump then I would consider using CSS::Minifier::XS which is a Perl + C
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by draegtun 14y ago
You can also find Expect ports in other languages. For e.g.: * Perl - https://metacpan.org/release/Expect * Ruby - http://rubygems.org/gems/expectr
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Parrot threads (ParrotVM now supports fast and lightweight OS threads)(perl6advent.wordpress.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Rosettacode.org is great place for factorial ( http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Factorial#REBOL ) and other code examples ( http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:REBOL ).
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Writing Perl 6 Rx (Regex) [Video | YAPC::Europe 2012](youtube.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
One liners are an (extreme!) optimisation and programmers feel quite proud when they able to optimise code :) And it's not restricted to Perl: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4906370 > Then again i've seen a lot broken, half-
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by draegtun 14y ago
Related blog post: http://blogs.perl.org/users/stas/2012/12/cpan-module-recomme...
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CPAN::U experiment (CPAN module recommendation system)(cpan-u.sysd.org)
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MPs and peers warn over planned Internet trolling laws(bbc.co.uk)
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The Scourge of Error Handling(drdobbs.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
This is very thorough boilerplate code for dealing with all corner cases when using utf-8 data with Perl. Instead of dismissing or dissing Tom Christiansen excellent post I would highly recommend reading into his The Good, the Bad, & t
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by draegtun 14y ago
Some more relevant links: * Hash order randomization is coming, are you ready? - http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1005122 * Hash randomisation breaks CPAN - https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115908
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by draegtun 14y ago
And below are all the delta changes in 5.17 uptil 5.17.6: * 5.17.0 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5170del... * 5.17.1 - https://metacpan.org/module/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/pod/perl5171del... * 5.17.2 - https://metacpan
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Perl, Redis and AnyEvent at Craiglist(lumberjaph.net)
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Self-updating github gists(perlmonks.org)
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Rakudo Star 2012.11 released(rakudo.org)
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How MIDI changed the world of music(bbc.co.uk)
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by draegtun 14y ago
Perl6 allows you to define your own operators: $ perl6 > sub infix:<J> ($sep, @list) { @list.join($sep) } > sub prefix:<J,> (@list) { @list.join(',') } > ':' J <one two three four>;
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by draegtun 14y ago
> "Lisp in C's Clothing" And Perl probably has an even greater claim to this because it shares 6 of the 7 What Makes Lisp Different? things described by Norvig.
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Lots of improvements coming in the Rakudo November release(6guts.wordpress.com)
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by draegtun 14y ago
but I don't think you can _undo_ inheritance at runtime I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it in Ruby. You certainly can do it in Perl because it uses a package (class) variable called @ISA for it's inheritance lookup. And because packa
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by draegtun 14y ago
Avoids dependency issues when you try to deploy your work on an unmodifiable target. I've been looking at DBM::Deep (one of perl's equivalent to CodernityDB) and App::FatPacker recently just for this case (install a script on some Macs

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