Re:A Review of Perl 6
by jfoutz on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:11PM
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Perl 5 was my first love as a programming language. I rarely use it now, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I learned so much with that language. Blessing a regex for example. That was the first time I felt like I had a super power.
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"Perl 5 was my first love as a programming language" is exactly how I describe it too.
The language has tons of warts, but also an amazing community. Participating in that community taught me more about the practice of software engineering than my computer science degree.
Perl 5 is still a great replacement for sed and awk in one-liners. Which is what it was originally envisaged as (although more than just one-liners), and is probably how it should survive - the most powerful one-line tool in existence.
With all due respect to APL?
Re:A Review of Perl 6
by throwaway7645 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @10:52PM
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I think they mean Nix terminal work. APL & J obviously win hands down as overal one-liner kings. Can Dyalog be used via the terminal in that manner? I'm guessing so, but never seen it used outside the IDE.
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> > Apples and oranges. Haskell is defined by a language specification, not an implementation.
Do you have the wrong thread? You're quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005881 , but replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005874 (albeit by the same user).