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Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

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Post by b2gills » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 7:08 AM UTC

j9461701 wrote: post #188

pmoriarty wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How familiar are you with Perl, and how much have you used it? Most of the anti-Perl comments I've heard have been from people who really didn't know it very well, if at all. Some of them might have glanced at some Perl code and saw a dense regex and dismissed it as "line noise". Well, yeah, if you don't know regexes you would be forgiven for thinking it was line noise, but if you did know regexes it should look no m…

>How familiar are you with Perl, and how much have you used it? It's what my company's entire code base is written in. So every hour of every work day for the past 6 months. >To me it looks really no uglier than any other mainstream language, and one could easily make the argument that any other mainstream language you care to name is uglier in some of its own ways. It's no one thing, but a bunch of little things tha…

Note that:

    while () { ($h{$_}++ == 1) && push (@outputarray, $_); };

Would be written as the following in Raku:

    my @output-array = lines.unique;

Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

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Post by lizmat » Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 1:28 PM UTC

b2gills wrote: post #461

j9461701 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>How familiar are you with Perl, and how much have you used it? It's what my company's entire code base is written in. So every hour of every work day for the past 6 months. >To me it looks really no uglier than any other mainstream language, and one could easily make the argument that any other mainstream language you care to name is uglier in some of its own ways. It's no one thing, but a bunch of little things tha…

Note that: while ( ) { ($h{$_}++ == 1) && push (@outputarray, $_); }; Would be written as the following in Raku: my @output-array = lines.unique;

Actually, since the Perl 5 example doesn't chomp (remove newlines), the Raku version would need to be:

    my @output-array = lines(:!chomp).unique;

where the `:!chomp` is a named parameter representing a `False` value for the named parameter `chomp`. AKA, `chomp => False`.

Re: Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

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Post by cben » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 8:23 AM UTC

earenndil wrote: post #278

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #33

From what I could tell, Raku appears to be from Rakudo, the Perl 6 compiler, which is a shortened form of rakuda-dou (="way of the camel" in Japanese). Rakudo also means "paradise". The "raku" from "way of the camel" means "camel", while the "raku" from "paradise" means "fun" or "enjoyable" (or "music"). Incidentally, it also happens to sound similar to "roku" (="six").

Meanwhile, in hebrew, it means spoiled or decayed. :)

That would be Rakuv רקוב, just Raku doesn't have any meaning in Hebrew. It does sound similar when pronounced though.

(Hebrew word formation is from 3-consonant roots, not concatenation, so removing a letter doesn't give a related word. It's either an invalid word or a different root with 3rd voiceless consonant רקוא which is a not a root / רקוע Raku'a "flattened" but that doesn't sounds quite differently.)