Exegesis 7 Released (Perl 6 Text Formatting)

chromatic writes "Perl.com has just published Exegesis 7, Damian Conway's explanation of how text formatting will work Perl 6 (and now, Perl 5, thanks to his Perl6::Form module) will work. Think of it as Perl 1 for the 21st century. Also, Parrot 0.1.0, the virtual machine for Perl 6 and several other dynamic languages, released on Leap Day -- ever wanted to program in an object oriented assembly language?"

Comments

Uh...

[double-oh three]

"ever wanted to program in an object oriented assembly language?"

Uh... I gotta say... No.

Re:Uh...

[Brandybuck]

I thought about this for five seconds in pseudo assembler, then my brain started leaking...

register cx public inherit register ax
push bx
push dx
ax::pop cx
bx.mov ax
shl bx->shr

A guy walks into his coworker's office....

[Shut the fuck up!]

The screen is covered with what looks like a still shot
of a copy of "The Matrix" screen saver.

He looks at it a minute, and realizes that the coworker
is reading it, so it can't be a screen saver.

He thinks about it a second, and then asks "Do you always
ready your email fully encrypted with PGP like that?
Decoding PGP in you head like that is _really_ impressive!".

"No," says the coworker, "that's just a Perl script I'm
working on".

Have you ever wanted to... NO! I HAVEN'T!

[Tackhead]

> ever wanted to program in an object oriented assembly language?"

Y'know, that couldn't be ANY MORE WRONG than an HTML rendering of a .GIF of a psychotic nun in a bondage outfit clubbing a baby seal to death with an Al Gore doll.

(With apologies to the denizen of the Monastery, from whom I stole the idea.)

C++ is object oriented high level assembler

[Anonymous Coward]

I have always thought of C as high level assembler, and C++ as object oriented high level assembler.

Re:C++ is object oriented high level assembler

[grub]

Olde Quote:

C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung.

Re:I tried, but I failed

[grub]

If you like Python, check out Ruby. I've been monkeying around with it at work for small things. It's like Perl but readable.. and object oriented from the ground up.. and easy to work with.. hmm, on second thought, it's nothing like Perl.

Yeah, but...

[Tailhook]

ever wanted to program in an object oriented assembly language?

Yes. However, some nights when I drive home from work I eye a bridge abutment thinking I'd like to bury my car in it at 140mph. So I'm not certain that whether I'd like to do something is a great way to evaluate it. What's your point?

BTW, is there a simple way to disable an airbag? Isn't there supposed to be a switch someplace? Thanks.

Re:Yeah, but...

[Thing 1]

BTW, is there a simple way to disable an airbag? Isn't there supposed to be a switch someplace? Thanks.

Well, sure, it's a three-step process (and I'm sure there's MTOWTDI):

*Click* remove seatbelt.

*Clunk* open door.

*Splat* roll out.

Re:I predict...

[Anonymous Coward]

Shamelessly stolen from some other post here for your enjoyment ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl

($e,$x,$y,$v,@m)=(shift,0,0,1,1 ,1,0,0);unshift@s,$_,$_ for 1..$e-1;unshift@s,$e;
@p=(1,0);for(@s){push@m,$d= shift@m;push@p,$a=shift@p;$d?$a?++$x:++$y:$a?--$x: --$
y,$l[$y][$x]=($e=>10?$v10?'00':$v100?0:'':$ e10?$v10?0:'':'').$v++,for 1..$_}
warn"@$_\n"for@l

But yeah, I *do* like Perl, I use it and it's FUN. Moreso than most other languages *shudder*vbscript*shudder* ...

Re:I tried, but I failed

[erikdotla]

"Like Perl but readable" is an oxymoron. If it's readable, then it's not like Perl.

Re:I 3 Perl

[typobox43]

You obviously don't come here often...

Re:I 3 Perl

[D'Sphitz]

Obviously you don't come here often enough to know you could check how often I come here by clicking my name.

You obviously don't come here often...