Re: is there a Perl 5 converter?

2016-01-20 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2016-01-20 5:02 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: or is it all by hand? If you mean a source code translator, I don't know of one right now but I wouldn't be surprised if one exists, that at least handles a common subset of Perl 5 code. I expect having one will be a priority if it isn't around

is there a Perl 5 converter?

2016-01-20 Thread ToddAndMargo
or is it all by hand? -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~

Porting considerations

2016-01-20 Thread Parrot Raiser
How difficult is it to port moar-VM to different versions of Linux, and different processor architectures? I'm thinking particularly of this machine: http://www.parallella.org/ which has multiple processors, designed, as the name suggests, for parallel processing. Given Perl 6's native parallel

Re: Porting considerations

2016-01-20 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 20/01/16 15:55, Parrot Raiser wrote: How difficult is it to port moar-VM to different versions of Linux, and different processor architectures? I'm thinking particularly of this machine: http://www.parallella.org/ which has multiple processors, designed, as the name suggests, for parallel

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

2016-01-20 Thread Andrew Kirkpatrick
I agree that getting Perl6 into the curricula is a good idea, and comparing it to Python if done reasonably and politely would help the cause of those who want to migrate their course over. That said I don't think that those fine folk on Perlmonks are all that correct about the lack of a business

Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

2016-01-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, B. Estrade > wrote: ... Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Brett. Cheers! -Tom

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

2016-01-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote: ... > That said I don't think that those fine folk on Perlmonks are all that correct about the lack of a business case for Perl6, and the degree to > which they are will fall significantly in the next few years.

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

2016-01-20 Thread B. Estrade
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Last year I mentioned a letter-to-the-editor in Communications of the > ACM which discussed the short-comings of Python as an introduction to > programming for computer science students. As a response to that > letter,

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

2016-01-20 Thread webmind
Great idea! I always thought Perl in general was quite suited for show casing and learning with different styles and ways of solving problems. It's flexibility is a key element in that. Especially in CS, students need to learn that there is more then one way to do it and be able to compare those