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> use of UTF-8 character for keywords [concerns me] What do you mean? All the keywords in the standard language are ASCII. And even if you meant some other part of the standard lan…

I hear you were coming from the angle of being useful. In a sense that's what matters most, and I love that you have that spirit. If Wikipedia has deadnamed Raku with grace then th…

Right. The choice is presumably between: Bad: A site being usable for a significant amount of time per day, but also unusable for a significant amount of time per day, and the rati…

> Perl 5 ... hasn't changed for 25+ years. A major new version of Perl ships regularly. A few weeks ago the latest major new version shipped. From the 2025 changes document: > Perl…

> dual licensing means that you don’t actually believe in software freedoms If both licenses are accepted by essentially everyone as inherently fully free software licenses, and th…

> I would [guess?] that [Raku(do)] is using hyper operators and internal concurrency to "cheat". You missed a word. I've guessed it was the word "guess". :) I haven't checked Rakud…

> CPython 9.72 - 22.10 secs > PyPy 1.65 secs > Node 1.76 secs > Rust 0.25 secs > Raku 0.12 secs Hi librasteve. :) FWIW I find it really hard to believe your bench marking was relia…

er, what? (⊙_)

Hi Steve. Please include https://github.com/beercss/beercss in your exploration.

> Sadly another language with concurrency support that fails to learn the lessons from occam. Weren't the top two lessons learned from occam about indeterminacy?: 1. If you ignore …

I've just found the key exchanges that arrived at "produce" by using the IRC log search[1] and then, er, scanning backwards to where the exchange began[2]: > TimToady: is it okay t…

I recall Larry saying the key visual aspect is the `\` (I don't recall him mentioning the `/`) because `[\` visually echoes the typical shape of results: .say for [\**] 2,3,4 4 # 4…

And to finish that last bit, if an argument of a call is not a `Date` or `Str`: * The compiler may reject the code at compile time for failing to type check; and, if it doesn't: * …

> I have worked on multiple 500K+ line Python projects. There were already several 1M+ Perl LoC code bases by the end of the 1990s, as Perl use exploded at places like Amazon. One …

I've tried and failed to find out what happened to Curt in the past. I suspect they died or were otherwise incapacitated 2 years ago because they suddenly stopped posting online.

> Much later, in the second half of the 90s, I remember the four of us carrying an IBM HDD -- I think it was your normal 5.25" drive but it needed four people because it was mounte…

Shades of the Monty Python sketch here, but the following is true... 4MB?!? My first encounter with IBM kit was a, er, darn I'm not sure cuz I'm getting old, but I think it was a 4…

Are you the champion Raku needs in this respect? Or can you at least help? ---- There's been discussion for a decade of the need for bundling up a single executable that includes e…

> why can't objects use the already built-in symbols the language support? In Raku they can. But one can also introduce new ones. More generally, it's nice Raku makes it easy for a…

I get how you (and perhaps others) might think it's as you say. But I can tell you're not saying what you've said based on knowing it to be true but guessing it to be so. And while…

Couple suggestions: * Ponylang. Pure Actor model. Static typing to enforce safe concurrent semantics in almost all respects. Plus ORCA GC. Upshot: high performance, and type theory…

In the Rakudo compiler for Raku that I just tried its "chars" count using the default EGC counting is 2.

It's not a fork any more than C# is a fork of C. It's not a rename for a breaking version tree any more than a C# compiler is of GCC. It is backwards compatible. The first strong d…