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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by gillesjacobs on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:34PM (#21227664)
A lot of my colleagues in NLP and text processing still prefer to write in Perl. Granted they are mostly the old guard but it is prevalent in academic language technology research.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by make3 on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:43PM (#21227733)
.. in the old guard of language technology research I guess, because in my NLP lab, no one knows the first thing about Perl (everything is done in Python)
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by proverbialbunny on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:09PM (#21227966)
More than that. I wrote my first machine learning project in Perl.

Perl 5 is better than Python in many ways, but worse in other ways. Raku seems to have none of the downsides Perl 5 had, but all of the upsides. Raku looks like it could be a valid replacement for Python in the ML space.

Also, back then, Perl 5 had better libraries than Python. Though, that was quite a while ago.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by ttkciar on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:23PM (#21228105)
We don't have an "NLP lab" here, but when my project required NLP solutions, perl delivered quite nicely.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by julienfr112 on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:40PM (#21227710)
Spacy, the new kid on the block, is in python...
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by gillesjacobs on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:30PM (#21228676)
There are many more tasks in NLP than what SpaCy offers even though it is a nice API. I use SpaCy near daily, but academic research goes beyond NER, dep parsing and PoS tagging.

For instance, [1] is a tool for text-to-pictograph translation system I worked on. The core engine is entirely written in Perl 5.

[1] http://picto.ccl.kuleuven.be/index_engspa.php

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by julienfr112 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:07AM (#21231635)
You are indeed taking your fair share of the trend ...
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