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by markrushing 10y ago
woot! :) still learning stuff ;) - though I'll use the first.
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by markrushing 10y ago
I agree that the packaging of Perl 6 needs to be improved, particularly for Windows. It's easy in Linux and Mac. Languages are a specification and implementation. Perl's been implemented in Rakudo, which runs on MoarVM and the JVM
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by markrushing 10y ago
This is a question of coding standards, which is applicable to every language. Some places had strict standards eventually for Perl <= 5 but there was a lot of legacy stuff. But Perl 6 is certainly not Perl 5 :) All languages need some s
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by markrushing 10y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean compact as in, oh let's see how few letters we can use. I meant compact in the way you can organize even VERY complex stuff, especially using their concept of grammars. You can write whole languages and protoco
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by markrushing 10y ago
I just started playing with Perl6 a couple weeks ago, and I am completely loving it now. It's the strangest process to get used to. I haven't had this much fun programming in a long time. Some frustration every one in a while unti
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by markrushing 10y ago
Well, Perl 6 throws defined exceptions by default for most stuff like this, and would be very explicit as to why it couldn't open a file. Tests are part of the IO stuff too, to see if it exists beforehand if you like, or check permissi
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Psychotic SUSE 12.1 Linux – A Mythological Nightmare(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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The Pan Pipes of Gentoo Linux, Always at the Source(mark.orbum.net)
2 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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The Trials of Cohabitation: Juggling Debian Sid and Fedora 16(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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Fedora 16 Isn’t Totally Ruthless – Just Needs Some Love and Understanding(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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Philosophizing After a Rest Last Night with Debian Linux from the Future(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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Heading Uptown for Fedora Linux:Tale of Science, Secret Agents & Corporate War(mark.orbum.net)
3 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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Tempted By a Sexy Debian from the Future(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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Out of Ubuntu’s Bed to Hairy Arch Linux in a Dark Alley(mark.orbum.net)
1 points by markrushing 15y ago|0 comments
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by markrushing 15y ago
And then just perusing anything that shows up in listbugs before an update? Hopefully problems would be noticeable without having to sift through tons of reports. I've never used that before. It's astonishing how many bugs there are in Ubun
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by markrushing 15y ago
Yeah, I haven't looked at what backports has in it right now, but that's certainly a thought. I was thinking Mint might be a "first line" against any breaks that might show up in unstable, but it seems many people are very happy with unstab
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Ubuntu and I – Beauty Isn’t Enough(mark.orbum.net)
3 points by markrushing 15y ago|5 comments