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Developer Spotlight: Damian Conway
An anonymous reader writes "Builder AU interview Perl guru Damian Conway to talk about Perl 6, his reasons for choosing Perl over other languages, PHP, Model-driven development and the first Open Source Developers Conference held this week in Melbourne, Australia."
Perl is not an acronym; There is no such thing as "PERL." It's either "Perl," or "perl," depending on whether you're referring to the language or the implementation/interpreter. :-)
l #What's-the-difference-between--perl--and--Perl--
See: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/pod/perlfaq1.htm
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No, not even then.
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The "memory test" is somewhat flaky, IMO. I can write C++, C, Perl, and shell scripts without looking at a manual, and have a pretty good chance of getting stuff to compile ("no syntactic errors") on the first try, and still a reasonable chance of getting it to work on that first try, too. I'm not saying that I'm a guru in these languages, only that I've used them all quite a bit, so I now remember them. I was getting to the same point with Java, then I stopped using it, and now I need to look up a fair bit of stuff (especially APIs).
This memory test is simply what you're used to. Use a tool for long enough, and you'll feel comfortable with it, even if it's an otherwisely awkward tool (e.g., what could be more awkward than awk?).
Sitting at OSDC and it's been a damn cool conference so far. Really impressed to see Perl, Python and PHP *actually* talking to each other!
Highlights for me so far: Nat Torkington's talk about O'Reilly Research, Anthony Baxter's talk on shtoom (cool VoIP client/server written in pure Python).
Scariest talk: Damian's talk on Perl 6 -- how many new operators can you have in a language? And what's with that zipper operator using the yen character???
It's been pretty impressive for a first attempt, even to somebody like me who has had the privilege of sitting in on the preparations for OSDC and who has been there and done that in another life time.
Damian's participation is certainly an asset, and he is far from the only open source notable for whom it's a home town show, not that we have been short of visitors from afar either.
In two days, we have had no no shows on the speaker front, no doubt reflecting the efforts of the papers committee which also produced a 325 page book of proceedings with all papers reviewed or refereed. All sessions across the three parallel streams have also run very close to schedule.
Highlights are way too many to mention but if you want to know more, or want to check back later to see our plans for 2005, visit OSDC's website.
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u got it :")d e=all
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl6&mo
parrot package has a perl6 compiler/interpreter which support some of the stuff... as u know it is moving target..