Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Perl 6 Advent Calendar

Posted by timothy on from the possibly-recognizable-tune dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Larry Wall wasn't joking when he said that Perl 6 would be ready by Christmas. Perhaps not this Christmas, but that hasn't stopped a group of people (including head Rakudo developers Patrick Michaud and Jonathan Worthington) from putting together an Advent Calendar, featuring one cool Perl 6 feature every day until Christmas. Topics currently covered include how to get and build Rakudo (the most actively developed and progressed implementation of Perl 6) and the new Metaoperators. For those wondering when Perl 6 will be finished: Rakudo will be having its official 'production release' (dubbed Rakudo Star) April 2010."

4 of 160 comments (clear)

  1. Still not APL by RichMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It looks like they are attempting to reinvent APL. (with the addition of regex operations).

    I can imagine a single line of code will now require 10 to 100 lines of comments to describe the iterations and references going on.

     

  2. Re:PERL went the way of the dodo... by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PHP isn't necessarily cryptic but it's just as ugly as PERL.

  3. Re:This has taken too long by icebraining · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Python can do all that.

    OpenOffice.org ships with the python scripting language, version 2.3.4.

    --
    Dilbert RSS feed
  4. TRANSLATION by rpresser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I, Toby Haynes, am a genius. You are not. Go away."

    So -- Perl 6, the language for stuck-up assholes.