Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by cutler on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:07AM
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Elixir still has to borrow arrays from Erlang and it's a pretty ugly implementation at that so no - I would not agree that Elixir has an excellent set of first-class generic data structures.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by bitwalker on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:20AM
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Neither Elixir or Erlang have real arrays, unless you want to count tuples. That said, I don’t see how that correlates to scripting, the data structures that are first class in Elixir are very ergonomic and certainly flexible enough to tackle pretty much any task you’d use a scripting language for.