Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
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Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#2Also, Eccentric Euler’s one-liner:
> '𝑒'.uniname
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL E
> say 𝑒
2.718281828459045Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#3This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#4Raku = Perl 6, just in case you're wondering.
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#5How to compute e properly, with consideration for error bounds: https://www.nayuki.io/page/approximating-eulers-number-corre...
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#6This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
Is it officially appropriate to talk about Perl in the past tense?
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#7This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
Perl is pretty great and it was THE language to know before Java took over the enterprise in the early-mid 2000s, and python later.
Perl is its own thing, definitely, and it does a lot of things extremely well (though not always extremely fast) using code that is as succinct as you want it to be, sometimes to a fault.
It is worth learning because of its utility and because of what it can teach, even though you probably won't use it a lot.
Perl 5 documentation still stands out to me as a perfect example of how official language documentation should be. Lots of examples, lots of explanation, standard library and third party modules are named extremely sanely, and it's all just documented so well. Even joke Perl5 modules are documented extremely well; it's just part of the culture that other languages seriously need to adopt.
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#8This article is a love letter to both mathematics and programming. It is awesome to read something and grasp the joy and playfulness of the author. The maths are explained in a simple way. The programming concepts go from the straightforward to the delightfully weird (and let't not kid ourselves, Raku shines the most the weirder things get). And the final result is downright fun. I love it.
Re: Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
#9This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
Is it officially appropriate to talk about Perl in the past tense?
No, just about people caring about it. (Okay, that was flip, but Perl has really lost its niche, and not many people are very excited about it now.)