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2641.
by perlgeek 16y ago
The idea that language limits what you can think has been obsoleted for quite some time, see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html for example. 'Languages differ not in what you can say, but in what you must say" --
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by perlgeek 16y ago
Many "real world" building projects far exceed the originally estimated cost; some of them are not very stable at all, and scale badly when put under strain that wasn't originally envisioned. Just one link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sco
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by perlgeek 16y ago
I can only agree. If something doesn't work, and you think debian has screwed it up, type reportbug rubygems and write up what's wrong. It often takes quite some time to fix stuff, but often it is fixed eventually. (Note that by D
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by perlgeek 16y ago
In case it isn't obvious, a likely result from answering these questions is to split up the site. I have made good experiences with having a programming blog, a personal blog (which parts of my family and non-geek friends tend to read), and
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Programming Languages are not Zero-Sum(perlgeek.de)
6 points by perlgeek 16y ago|0 comments
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by perlgeek 16y ago
How much reflection do you spend on a single-word comment? Python is not Perl, how can it be Modern Perl? I know that some people think that Ruby and Python continued the tradition of scripting languages that Perl brought to mainstream, and
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by perlgeek 16y ago
I kinda thought the trolls were mostly on reddit, sad to see their rise on hackernews too.
2648.
by perlgeek 16y ago
There is one being developed, it will be available at try.rakudo.org. See http://github.com/moritz/try.rakudo.org for the source code.
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by perlgeek 16y ago
I totally agree. chromatic is currently writing a book called "Modern Perl", which teaches Perl the way we know it today, idiomatic, safe, structured Perl. We just need more of such efforts.
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by perlgeek 16y ago
In the real world you seldomly have an exactly nailed-down specification of anything. If you're lucky enough to do something as basic as parsing URIs or JSON, you have, but normally not. Writing a recursive descending parser isn't hard, as
2651.
by perlgeek 16y ago
I'm curious, how did you get that impression? I'm one of the Perl 6 developers, and IMHO the regexes and grammars are one of the "killer" features. And I've also seen them evolve gradually, and have used them for various purposes. What gave
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by perlgeek 16y ago
That's not what I call "quietly", fwiw.
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Physical models made easy (with Perl 6)(perlgeek.de)
2 points by perlgeek 16y ago|0 comments
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Contributing to a compiler isn't really hard or dark magic(perlgeek.de)
4 points by perlgeek 17y ago|0 comments
2655.
by perlgeek 17y ago
Official Perl 6 homepage with links to (nearly) all of the above: http://perl6.org/
2656.
by perlgeek 17y ago
"reverse" wasn't renamed to "flip", just one of the two possible meanings of "reverse" was renamed. reverse() still exists and reverses lists.
2657.
by perlgeek 17y ago
It follows Perl's philosophy very closely. As an example: in Javascript, the binary + operator means either addtion or concatenation, depending on the type of the left-hand side. In Perl there are different operators for that, + for additio
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Perl 6 Advent Calendar - one Perl 6 tip per day until Christmas(perl6advent.wordpress.com)
8 points by perlgeek 17y ago|0 comments
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Rakudo Star: a "useful release of Perl 6" planned for April 2010(use.perl.org)
4 points by perlgeek 17y ago|0 comments