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by tene 16y ago
I'm sorry, but which grammar rules in Perl 5 are inconsistent? I've taught Perl 5 professionally, and while I certainly do acknowledge that Perl isn't optimal for learning, "inconsistent grammar" is not on my list. It does have a more-com
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by tene 16y ago
LOL PERL USES FUNNY LETTERS!
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by tene 16y ago
given and when are actually separate constructs, useful individually. given sets the topic ($_) to its argument for the scope of the block, and when smartmatches its argument against the topic (in most cases, mostly when it looks like the
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by tene 16y ago
Powers of two wouldn't actually work there. Using primes lets you use division as a test for presence in the original set. The task is 'detect presence in the set', and integers are uniquely identified by their prime factorization. Power
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by tene 16y ago
The name I've always seen given to this is the waterbed theory of complexity. There's a certain amount of necessary complexity in a problem, and pushing it down in one place just increases the complexity necessary somewhere else. The only
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by tene 16y ago
That's definitely informative and interesting. I feel like I'm missing something, though. How exactly does multi-cursor solve the problems you express with macros? it took some thought into making sure I always remember to start at
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by tene 16y ago
Then you spend ten minutes learning the basics of a very powerful, widely-used tool that will support your text-editing tasks for many years to come. I've often seen reluctance to actually put in time to learn powerful tools. I plan to be
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by tene 16y ago
I do that with macros all the time in vim. qa <do what you said> q <relocate the cursor> @a It's not clear to me at all why I wouldn't dream of doing that in a macro, or how that's not light-weight.
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by tene 16y ago
http://github.com/perl6/book/
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by tene 16y ago
This is one of the reasons I'm fond of Perl's Template::Declare. It's a declarative syntax for generating HTML that's still just plain Perl. http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Template-Declare-0.43/lib/Tem... I certainly understand the use c
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by tene 16y ago
Perl 5 isn't going anywhere, nor does anyone claim that it is. Perl 5 is still being actively developed, and it's still going to be in the future. Perl 6 has worked out to not be so much a Perl 5 replacement as just another language in th
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by tene 16y ago
That's because you're not familiar with modern Perl libraries. Out of all of the languages I've worked with, by far my favorite database library is Perl's DBIx::Class. If you want a mature, amazing web framework in Perl, look at Catalyst.
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by tene 16y ago
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
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by tene 17y ago
Can you elaborate on what the network effects of using Visual Basic would be, actually? What domains does Visual Basic have significant network effects? How does this compare against the network effects of Perl's CPAN, which is a signif
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by tene 17y ago
> Except of course on Linux, the firewall isn't application-aware, so you can't even control which processes are allowed to open inbound communication. You certainly can set application-level network privileges, and Red Hat derived dist
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by tene 17y ago
I'm interested enough to have spent part of my free time over the past few years working on it. There was also a fairly large response to the Perl 6 Advent Calendar during December.
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Rakudo Star: a "useful release of Perl 6" coming next spring.(use.perl.org)
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Cross-language library loading on Parrot(blogs.gurulabs.com)
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by tene 18y ago
One of the things I was looking forward to in implementing Ruby on Parrot was using real OO. I don't really mind ruby's syntax too much, but the OO was frustrating.
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by tene 18y ago
I haven't worked on Cardinal in ages, besides moving it to an independent repository recently and updating it to actually build on its own last night. The grammar is fairly complete, but the standard library isn't there, several builtin cla
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by tene 18y ago
Perl 6 hasn't moved to Pugs. Pugs was an experimental prototype that was already abandoned by the time work started on Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot).
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Multiple languages in the same interpreter in Parrot(blogs.gurulabs.com)
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by tene 18y ago
freenode: #utah, #lojban, #perl6 irc.perl.org: #parrot I also hang out in my ISP's IRC channel for convenient occasional tech support.
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by tene 18y ago
I've really enjoyed Catalyst when working with it in the past. I used it extensively at my previous job, and for a few personal projects. I really like the extensibility of Catalyst. It's a very Perlish framework. It's not opinionated.