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Apocalypse 5 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Simon Cozens writes "The Apocalypses are Larry Wall's explanation of the design of Perl 6. In Apocalypse 5, Larry turns to redesigning regular expressions. He set out to intentionally 'break' a lot of the regular expression culture we're all used to, and these are the results - and they're mindblowing."

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  1. Breaking expressions by somethingwicked · · Score: 4, Funny

    He set out to intentionally 'break' a lot of the regular expression culture we're all used to

    I hope he can break "Don't go there" and "Talk to the hand" There are many others, but this would be a good start

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  2. Apocalyptic numbering by distributed.karma · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, when Perl 6.final is released, will the release notes be called "Apocalypse.Now"?

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  3. One thing that I'd like to hear about with this... by AltGrendel · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is if Cmdr Taco is going to upgrade slashcode to Perl 6 and what he thinks of all this re-write of Perl.

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