Re: Perl6 -> Raku? whats the scope?

2019-10-16 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Den 15-10-2019 kl. 17:49 skrev Andrew Shitov: To my opinion, should be done before this year's Christmas. At least everything that can be done by the "Perl 6 team" But after lunch. /kaare

Re: Startup performance on OS X

2016-10-03 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-10-03 12:14, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Wrt to Pm’s timing of perl 5 with Moose: if you actually want to have most of Perl 6’s capabilities in Perl 5 with Moose, you will need to load quite a few MooseX:: classes as well. Which cannot have a positive effect on load time. Right. But

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

2016-09-07 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi Joseph Welcome, and I hope you'll stick around. Now, I haven't had the time to dig into Perl 6 myself, only to poke at it from time to time. But, while waiting for people who know something to respond, I'll ask you to be a little concise in certain areas. * I can find no concise

Re: Graphical Toolkits

2016-08-26 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-08-26 03:14, Timo Paulssen wrote: with Inline::Python you can use at least one of the Qt bindings python The Inline::* options are mostly interesting when porting or binding to existing applications, IMHO. But it's a valid point. Doesn't Perl 5 have some implementations as well?

Graphical Toolkits

2016-08-25 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi ISTM that right now the only option if you want to develop a graphical desktop application is GTK. At least it seems to be the only one on the modules list. You may very well correct me if I'm wrong. I'm thinking if anybody has any knowledge of other projects, perhaps Qt5, Wx, or any

Re: Perl 6 adoption

2016-06-29 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-06-29 12:26, webmind wrote: On 28/06/16 05:26, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: In that vein, I'm surprised how easy it is to bind to C libraries. This could very well be a killer feature for Perl 6 compared to other high level languages. The resource usage has to come down to a reasonable level

poll (3) (WAS select (3))

2016-04-30 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Den 30-04-2016 kl. 19:14 skrev Kaare Rasmussen: select(3) is an abysmal API. There's a reason most OSes replaced select(2) with a backward compatibility select(3) and moved on to something poll-like (look for poll(2) or epoll(2)). Well, it's not that I fare better with poll

Re: select (3)

2016-04-30 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Den 30-04-2016 kl. 10:35 skrev Kaare Rasmussen: Variations over [2] give inconclusive results, so I know I'm doing something (probably very basic) wrong. But what? The current incancation tries to dup the STDIN fd to 14, which should be the second last bit in the 2nd uint8. But I've tried

Re: Google Summer of Code and Google Code In

2016-02-21 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-02-20 10:54, Vytautas D wrote: Its a real shame. Thanks to all volunteers. But please do speak up earlier. I shouted on #soc-perl irc channel. Saw other people asking questions here and there. But not even a single reply or shout for help. Yeah, feels like a big opportunity for

Re: Most wanted module: Net::SMTP

2016-02-21 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-02-20 20:50, Tom Browder wrote: I notice that module Net::SMTP is on the most wanted list and shown as a WIP. However, on a lark I decided to try: I guess you refer to https://github.com/perl6/perl6-most-wanted/blob/master/most-wanted/modules.md which seems to be a compilation of

Re: Google Summer of Code and Google Code In

2016-02-18 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
> I have not seen the schedule for signup for this year. I expect that we will participate again. Apparantly, deadline is very close for organizations now: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ I hope the People In Power knows and has it under control. /kaare

Re: Perl 6 Module and Program File Extension Conventions?

2016-01-13 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
But I don't know why they still suggest to use any specific suffix. It's of now interest or value to the user in which language the program is written. /kaare Looking at the documentation, http://doc.perl6.org/language/modules see "Basic structure". On 1/12/16, Parrot Raiser

Re: Recalling previous commands

2016-01-01 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi Try Out Linenoise https://github.com/hoelzro/p6-linenoise/ panda install Linenoise Command history is essential to the user experience of a REPL. I wonder why Linenoise just isn't included in Task::Star (?) /kaare

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi Darren On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan The next Perl 6 release will be called 6.d. Hopefully it will take a while before that happens. I hope there will be a lot of Rakudo releases in

Re: release?

2015-12-27 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi webmind I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I know wonder if this is the 6.0.0 release or when this will be? I understand your confusion. Most people would expect something downloadable, and there is actually a Rakudo release to go. But 6.c is really the promise

Re: Missing documentation

2015-10-28 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 10/28/2015 08:31 PM, Parrot Raiser wrote: This Perl 5 to 6 Translation guide http://doc.perl6.org/language/5to6 is mentioned in several places, but returns a 404. Is it obsolete, or just misplaced? This one you're looking for? http://doc.perl6.org/language/5to6-nutshell.html