One possible meeting topic: Applying Functional Programming in Perl5 & Perl6:
<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=yapc%3A%3Ana+2016+lembark&t=ffsb&ia=videos&iai=7zHwNymO7BE> My version: <http://www.slideshare.net/lembark/neatly-foldingatree-62637403> With Damian's slides added: <http://www.slideshare.net/lembark/neatly-hashing-a-tree-fp-treefold-in-perl5-perl6> Keyword::TreeFold is on CPAN now if anyone wants to see how it works. One interesting hackathon-ish topic: Using keywords to simplify non- OO code. Face it: Not everything is most easily programmed with an object. Many objects are really only there to manage a namespace for function calls (i.e., the object itself has minimal/no really tighly-bound data). At that point a Topical Language may make more sense, which is easy to do with Keyword::Declare. Functional programming (sans objects) makes good sense for several classes of real-world problems. Managing boilerplate to standardize Perl5 code for FP is relatively easy (see talk). Even easier in Perl6 since things like lazy lists are already built into the language. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing St Louis, MO 63110 [email protected] +1 888 359 3508 _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
