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You must decide if you want your career path to be a manager or a technologist. In most cases, there is valid career growth in either path but they are different paths because ther…

Many industries use Perl 5 to keep things running. The semiconductor industry, in particular uses a lot of existing, and develops a lot of new, Perl code to do things commercial so…

The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku so there are no more backwards compatibility issues. Perl 7 is the new opportunity for backwards incompatibility (and proba…

I view the Raku vs. Perl split as schizophrenic conflict resolution.

Packrat parsing is not an intrinsic aspect of PEG, nor does it increase memory usage. Further, the memory issue is more academic than real. If you are having memory issues, you wil…

I went paperless, this year, and after trying 3 or 4 different note apps, I settled on Notability on an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. That I can run the app on my laptop (and phone),…

I don't know about vendor stance, but Elixir feels fairly elegant (better descriptive word than beautiful, I think.)

What I have negative to say has more to do with those producing implementations than the architecture or RTL. In order to have the security afforded by being open, every part of th…

Moreover, no one is releasing the gate-level netlists nor the LEF and DEF nor mask data. Without those you can't have security unless you build your own.

It really depends. The question really should be, "Is Perl 6 fast enough?" For my purposes, the answer is almost always yes. I can imagine some applications where the answer would …

If you are doing it for personal growth and learning, then Perl 6. It is an interesting language that cleanly supports many major programming paradigms including functional, impera…

Perl 6 actually exists and has a REPL which Perl 5 lacked.

I use Perl 6