willthechill

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1. 1.▲
   by willthechill 8y ago

   This claim by mst is patently false. While it may be true that some people in the Perl community disagree with Reini Urban (AKA rurban, creator of cperl and co-founder of Perl 11), by no means does Reini alone constitute "most" of
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   by willthechill 8y ago

   RPerl is a Perl 5 transpiler. We started with a low-magic subset of Perl 5, and are now slowly moving into the medium-magic parts of Perl 5 like regular expressions and Moo(se) and databases etc.
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   by willthechill 8y ago

   The "pluggability of Perl at all levels" is a goal meant to move us away from the existing Perl 5 core design, which is mostly C macros and is essentially unmaintainable. Even if we never truly achieve pluggability on ALL levels,
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   by willthechill 8y ago

   This is an easy answer which can be found on the homepage of both the Perl11.org and RPerl.org websites. But sure, I can re-explain it for those who didn't bother to read the basic source material! ... RPerl compiles Perl 5 into C++,
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   by willthechill 8y ago

   I've already spoken with Hauke at great length on #perl11, and he has formally joined the Perl 11 development cooperative, as evidenced by the recent addition of WebPerl to the Perl11.org website.
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   by willthechill 8y ago

   Hello everyone, I am Will 'the Chill' Braswell, creator of the RPerl optimizing compiler and co-creator of Perl 11, along with Reini Urban and Ingy döt Net. I'd be happy to answer any serious questions about the RPerl techni
7. 7.▲
   by willthechill 11y ago

   I am the creator of RPerl, and I am more than happy to answer any questions and provide free technical support to open source Perl programmers! Please find our team on IRC: irc.perl.org #perl11 @willthechill