/prog/ - perl6 status

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 8:01

http://perl6.org/compilers/features

for anyone who cares...

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 8:03

i know that at least 2 of the 3 users of /prog/ cares

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 8:17

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 8:31

>>3
Thus the ideal programming language is my dialect of Lisp written using the lazy code generation technique: the code is written only when it's actually needed, but since all users of the language have reached Satori and don't need any features at all, I can use all my free time for trolling you !

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 8:58

>>4
the code is written only when it's actually needed,
U MENA JIT compilation!

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 11:30

>>1
Shaped arrays/hashes

the fuck....?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 12:31

>>6
What about it? The only thing surprising about it is that it's not implemented yet.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 12:59

>>7
it just makes you wonder what the hell is a shaped hash

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 13:04

hygienic macros
perl
the fuck

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 13:07

>>9
my thoughts exactly

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 13:30

>>9,10
This! I was about to post it. Seriously, wtf??

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 13:32

>>9,10,11
perl6 != perl

But I am puzzled too.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 14:12

>>12
>>9,10,11
>>9-11

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 14:58

macros and syntax don't mix well. Perl's syntax is complicated noisy and ugly.

what is this i don't even

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 15:29

>>14
Thinking that macros and syntax are incompatible is simply a mark of stupidity. Go away, for you have failed the intelligence test.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 17:37

So will this be a general scripting language or a web-dev language?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 17:40

But can Perl expand alghebraic expressions, like the following Symta code?



expand {($A+$B)*$C} -> {$A*$C+$B*$C}

      ;{$A*($B+$C)} -> {$A*$B+$A*$C}

      ;{($A+$B)^2}  -> {($A+$B)*($A+$B)}

      ;{$A*$A}      -> {$A^2}

      ;{$A*$(B:?<A)} -> {$B*$A}

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 17:42

>>16
I think it will be a general scripting language. Somewhat like Python

Perl 6 is a new language in the Perl family, incorporating many ideas from Perl 5 and other scripting languages into a new coherent whole. Although still in development, Rakudo Perl 6 is an implementation of Perl 6 you can use today.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 17:44

>>17
fuck off and die

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 17:57

>>19
Good. I will interpret your answer as a fail of Perl 6.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-26 18:01

>>20
Wrong. Prepare your anus.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-27 3:26

>>17
Damn, I'm sure that even perl would reject that code.

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