Periodic Table of the Operators

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."

Comments

Oh my sweet Jesus...

[btlzu2]

This cannot mean good things for Perl. Look at all of those operators!!!! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that pretty onerous to have a huge chart of possible operators for a language? I'd quite prefer simplifying over adding multiple combinations of ways to doing things. That code is gonna be NASTY.

All the more reason for me (IMO) to avoid Perl like the plague.

This is a beautiful diagram

[dozer]

Excellent antialiasing, excellent fonts with good kerning, great drop shadows, lots of repititive work assembled pretty much flawlessly... This chart gets an A+ for style (which is pretty rare in the non-Mac Unix world).

Does anybody know the tool Mark Lentcner used to make it? Illustrator? Could I be so bold as to hope that Sodipodi or Inkscape are now capable of something like this?

Re:This is a beautiful diagram

[toby]

lots of repititive work assembled pretty much flawlessly

Except for the odd typo (e.g. in junctive elements) - not to disparage a neat, humorously executed piece of work and a clever idea.

Could I be so bold as to hope that Sodipodi or Inkscape are now capable of something like this

Hand-coded PostScript is quite capable of this :-) Certainly the PS greybeards pulled off even fancier things that way - 3D with hidden surface removal, etc.