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First Perl 6 Book is Out

Posted by michael on from the first-not-always-best dept.

prostoalex writes "O'Reilly Publishing presented Perl 6 Essentials, the first book to be dedicated to Perl 6, at the beginning of this month. Looking at the table of contents, it hardly looks like a valid replacement for Llama or Camel books. Chapter 1 is available online. The whole book is available to Safari subscribers." I'm sure we'll review it sooner or later.

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  1. Ruby has its own design mistakes by metamatic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd move to Ruby right now, except it doesn't support Unicode. I really don't see any point in learning another language with no native Unicode support; I may as well stick with Perl 5.

    And like you, I'm not touching Python because of the stupid indentation block structuring. I mean, that's such a blatantly stupid idea... When I pick up some Python code that's space-indented and edit it in my text editor with 3-space tabs, the Python compiler's going to magically guess that my tab-tab is equivalent to 6 spaces, is it? And I'm not going to get irritated and confused by the fact that two indentations that look identical on the screen are seen differently by the compiler? Yeah, right, I believe that...

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    GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
  2. If you look here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/perl/"

    Leon could be an attractive woman if he would do his hair differently.

    I don't mean that as a knock at Leon, but he has a nice jawline.

    On the other hand, Dan or Perrin will never be mistaken for a woman. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

    P.S. Randal... nice haircut... for 1977.