nige123

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   by nige123 9y ago

   fear -> anger -> hate -> suffering Sadly some programmers went down this path when they first encountered Perl - that gnarly Perl 5 regex that stopped them in their tracks. WTF they cried - and they never forgot that feeling. The f
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   by nige123 9y ago

   Perl 6 is indeed fun - it's even optimised for it [1]! I'm enjoying using it for command-line tools and web applications - it's expressive and scales with the problem space. 1. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com&#x2
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   by nige123 11y ago

   Really like how expressive this solution is and the readability of the "whenever" blocks handling asynchronous events.