Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-12 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
Hi, answering a bit late, but better late than never. A couple of uses of Perl 6 at $work. I'm working, among other things, on a very large application running on VMS (about 3,500 programs). We"re using a few dozens Perl programs on these platforms, but we're stuck with a very old version of Perl

RE: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Mark Devine
N6Ghost, I use Perl 6 exclusively now for "systems" work. - SSH commands to 500 systems to gather their info using promises/supplies/channels - make Perl 6 modules for cantankerous system management utilities, then write scripts that use my .pm6 modules for various purposes

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Vittore Scolari
Hi, whenever I want to have fun, and I need to parse a non-trivial file format, dealing with the output of special purpose software performing analysis on experimental data, I choose Perl 6 due to the fact that composability makes grammars very readable and logical-looking. On the other end, I

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Theo van den Heuvel
Hi, I have been using it for a couple of years and my main use case is heavy and complex syntactic analysis. In my experience no other language comes close for this kind of use. Perl6 takes some getting used to, but it is well-designed. Some aspects of the design are not yet part of the

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Hi, I use Perl 6 all the time, wherever I can. But for some things I do, I can't use Perl 6, for example Android apps, or embedded chip programming. I have used a number of languages, starting with Fortran and assembler, then Pascal, Snobol, C and recently Java and php. Perl 6 can be used

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-04 Thread Patrick Spek via perl6-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I've been using Perl 6 in my personal projects to create an IRC bot (using IRC::Client), a number of modules, and currently trying to set up a new mail environment with a management API built with Cro. At work, I've used Perl 6 to deal with