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From: Aimee Cardenas <aim...@sfbrgenetics.org>
Date: December 11, 2009 2:10:19 PM CST
To: paik...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: Perl 6 Sentiments
Interesting. There are as many different flavors of opinions as
there are people. :-) I'm just excited to be able to use a
different color of perl. :-) I see it like cuisine: Eating italian
is great but sometimes you want something a little different to more
fit your mood, like Thai or Indian. None, in my opinion, are better
than the others... just different, spiced up in a different way. :-)
Aimee Cardenas
On Dec 11, 2009, at 2:02 PM, paik...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Dec 11, 2009 6:17pm, Aimee Cardenas <aim...@sfbrgenetics.org>
wrote:
> Thanks a bunch! This is very helpful. :-)
> Aimee Cardenas
> On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> Aimee Cardenas wrote:
>
>
> Cool, thanks. So, I've read that pugs is a test version of Perl
6. Is
>
> Rakudo the official Perl 6 release? I'm a little confused.
>
>
>
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> As I understand it, Pugs is a stand-alone version; Rakudo uses
Parrot
>
> (like Perl 6 is suppose to). Neither is a complete
implementation of
>
> Perl 6 (yet).
> Programming is as much about organization and communication
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> as it is about coding.
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>
>
> I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your
>
> thingy.
As an aside, I heard an interesting and funny talk last week
entitled, "Perl 5 is Alive, Perl 6 is Dead, something that escapes
me". The point of the talk was that every time we say Perl 6, we're
saying Perl 5 is somehow lesser or inferior. As Perl 6 has been
years in the coming it kinda makes it seem like we're making do
with Perl 5! Perl 6 is not Perl 5. Perl 6 is a specification and
will be quite different from Perl 5. The speaker recommended Rakudo
and convinced me.
Just my tupence worth,
Dp.
