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Exegesis 3 Released (Perl 6 Examples)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lusting-after-the-perl dept.

chromatic writes "On the heels of Larry's most recent revelation, the mad scientist of Perl (Damian Conway) has followed up with Exegesis 3. His article gives working Perl 6 code examples of Larry's design decisions." Lots of good stuff in here.

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  1. Re:Some thoughts by scrytch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some of this new stuff seems to be seriously blurring the difference between language and library

    Bingo. Perl has very malleable syntax, which is perhaps not as flexible as, say, SML, but still has had a philosophy of letting you rewrite good chunks of perl in perl. Perl6 is just adding to the potential confusion, letting you write code as twisted and evil as you want to. Besides, if you tend to write mathematical apps commonly ... well, you might not write them in perl, but you probably do at least " on an easy key (I had to copy and paste it myself). " does not need to be an operator. It just can be.

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