Polyglots? On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, B. Estrade <[email protected]> wrote:
> I updated the slides a bit. I added something in the possible > talk/discussion section. > > Because the regex example is valid in both Perl and Qore, I came up > with something called the "Perqore" challenge (based on 'parkour') - > the challenge is simply to write code that is valid in both Perl and > Qore. > > I can't think of what it's called, but it'd almost be like when you > try to have a single file that combines different programming > languages, but is valid in all of them - e.g., hiding some of language > X inside of what looks like a comment block to language Y. I've seen > examples that combine 4 or more languages. I just can't find them atm. > > For Perl/Qore, it's a little different. You'll probably end up molding > Perl to accept Qore's quirks rather than the other way around. So, > there's no real hiding of code. > > IDK, just something to keep you busy....if anyone decides to accept > such a challenge, it might make for an interesting lightning talk. > > Brett > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:31:36PM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > > I really enjoyed the meeting tonight. It was great to have so many > > people talking about stuff. Thanks for organizing it, Wade. > > > > Thanks to Jake for pointing out a typo. Under Perl's threading/async > > options I had "Core". I meant, "Coro". > > > > Fixed. > > > > https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcqfscq4_337hkvxt6fc > > > > Brett > > > > -- > > B. Estrade <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > > Houston mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > -- > B. Estrade <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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