A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by domm_plix » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:44 PM UTC

A Complete Course of the Raku programming language
course.raku.org

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by easygenes » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by StylusEater » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #2

Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.

Looks like people can submit PRs: https://github.com/ash/raku-course

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #2

Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.

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Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by zeotroph » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:31 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #2

Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.

Also I'd prefer more than one subheading per page. That would make scrolling/wheeling through the content easier.

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by qsort » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:34 PM UTC

easygenes wrote: post #2

Sadly only first part is complete. Raku is the much more functionally inspired new Perl. It’s the renaming of Perl 6 and means “camel” or “paradise” in Japanese.

Is Perl/Raku widely used these days? Are they worth learning? I've always been curious about those languages but I've had the impression that people are moving away from them.

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by msvan » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by qalmakka » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

I'm so glad they renamed Perl 6, having it dangling for decades like a Sword of Damocles hurt Perl more than anything else could. At least both languages are now able to progress in their separated ways, and I must say Raku is a really pleasant language, and a joy to use.

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by sigzero » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

msvan wrote: post #7

Over the years I have learned and dipped my toes in many programming languages, and I'd need some kind of reason to look into yet another language. What are Raku's main contributions to the programming language design space that I probably haven't seen elsewhere?

Maybe grammars? You'd have to research.

https://docs.raku.org/language/grammars

Re: A Complete Course of the Raku programming language

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Post by sigzero » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

qalmakka wrote: post #8

I'm so glad they renamed Perl 6, having it dangling for decades like a Sword of Damocles hurt Perl more than anything else could. At least both languages are now able to progress in their separated ways, and I must say Raku is a really pleasant language, and a joy to use.

Agreed. Now both projects can more forward for whatever someone's definition of forward means. I am just glad it happened.