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Re:Perl 11 by marcosdumay on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:39PM (#18296147)
Are you kidding? Haskell is the language for picking stuff out of text files. Unless Perl got a complete transformation on the 5 to 6 change, it isn't even on the same league.
Re:Perl 11 by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:47AM (#18301809)
Could you be a bit more specific about what makes Haskell the language for this? I'm not sure it's going to be more comprehensible than Perl, for those who don't write Haskell full-time. I'm not sure it's going to be easier to read through the lines of an input file than it is in Perl, and I'm not sure it's going to be easier to apply regexes to lines than it is in Perl.

Is one of those assumptions wrong? Can you state why it's wrong?

Or do I need to adjust my sarcasm detector?

Re:Perl 11 by lizmat on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:02PM (#18296361)
You could argue that Perl 6's grammars are a complete transformation. Please see https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammar_tutorial for more information. Note that Perl 6's grammars are used to parse Perl 6 code itself, so it's powerful enough to build complete language compilers out of.
Re:Perl 11 by marcosdumay on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:34AM (#18301685)
Cool, Perl6 gained a native context-free parser. Yeah, that gets it in the league, I would have to compare it with Python parser libraries to decide what's better.

But not, Haskell and Prolog are still leaders here, with Haskell currently having the lead.