Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by joslin01 » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

Programming is hard, let's go scripting..
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Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by losethos » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

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Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by aoprisan » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

tl;dr; So basically Perl 6 will force strict and warnings by default.

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by perlgeek » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:00 PM UTC

aoprisan wrote: post #3

tl;dr; So basically Perl 6 will force strict and warnings by default.

It does already; no need to use future tense.

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by densh » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

I'm a python programmer and this article really makes me interested in Perl. The only problem is that Perl 6 haven't shipped yet in more then 4 years since this article was written, have it?

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by agentgt » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

Programming is not hard. Getting people to buy your product or give you money... that's hard.

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by bryanlarsen » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

aoprisan wrote: post #3

tl;dr; So basically Perl 6 will force strict and warnings by default.

An actual tl;dr for this article would be almost as long as the article itself. There's lots of good stuff in there. However, if the length of the article intimidates you, I suggest starting at the sentence before the heading "early binding; late binding". Everything before that is historical perspective -- interesting but not as useful as the rest of the article.

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by sirn » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

densh wrote: post #5

I'm a python programmer and this article really makes me interested in Perl. The only problem is that Perl 6 haven't shipped yet in more then 4 years since this article was written, have it?

I asked the same question few years ago and the answer back then was "there will never be official Perl 6, anything that implements Perl 6 specification is Perl 6." I don't know about other implementations, but latest Rakudo Star[1] was released just a month ago.

[1]: https://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by molecule » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:14 PM UTC

wherein Larry Wall foresees the future: "I think when the new JavaScript engines come out we'll probably see renewed interest in a JavaScript backend." - December 6, 2007.

Re: Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

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Post by joelbd » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 3:18 PM UTC

densh wrote: post #5

I'm a python programmer and this article really makes me interested in Perl. The only problem is that Perl 6 haven't shipped yet in more then 4 years since this article was written, have it?

I'm not sure there will be an official Perl 6 shipment. I did recently download the February Rakudo Star (which compiles Perl 6 into Parrot VM bytecode), and I've enjoyed playing around with it. Fair disclosure: I've been writing and loving Perl 5 since 1999.

The difficulty right now for anyone from a Perl 5 background who would otherwise jump into Perl 6, is that running your Perl 6 program is really, really slow. I don't know if it's the compile step or execution or something else.