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Periodic Table of the Operators

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whats-the-atomic-weight-of-a-regex dept.

mAsterdam writes "At his code blog Mark Lentcner writes: "A while back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few months to get around to drawing it..." You might want to take a look at this and think about which operators are yet to be discovered."

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  1. I looked all over. by Phidoux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where is the WTF operator?

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  2. Some of these have a halflife of a few nanoseconds by JCCyC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Code written with them becomes illegible after that.

  3. Perl 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perl 6 is going to be the best thing that ever happened to Python.