Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz

Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by liontwist on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:49PM (#42458519)

I’m into lisp and vim.

I did one small project with Perl but wasn’t excited. I was hoping for bash 2.0 but the shell integration wasn’t great. Seems like python is a similar feature set, less exotic, and has great libraries.

Anyway? What did I miss? anything I should take a second look at?

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by dartos on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:53PM (#42458532)

Raku is basically perl 6 and has some features that blew my mind when I tried it a few years back.

Never really did much with it, but it was enjoyable to learn.

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by kjs3 on Thursday December 19, 2024 @11:03AM (#42462745)

This encapsulates every conversation I have ever had with someone who tried Perl 6: Tried it, was blown away with [some aspect of it], never found anything practical to do with it, never used it again.

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by RandalSchwartz on Thursday December 19, 2024 @06:19PM (#42466761)

I think I even reference that in the talk... Dart is everything I wanted from Perl 6, which is why I'm happy to be coding in Dart now.

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by kqr on Thursday December 19, 2024 @12:33AM (#42458700)

If you're into Lisp you're probably not missing that much. The main reason I use Perl over Lisp is that Perl is preinstalled nearly everywhere, whereas Lisp is not.

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Re:Half My Life with Perl – By Randal Schwartz by BoingBoomTschak on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:50AM (#42459369)

You should really look at Tcl if coming from Lisp and wanting a bash successor. Tcl (8.5) is also preinstalled on MacOS.

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