Hi Radhakrishnan,
I think the question you are asking directly relates to your
experience as a programmer. If you have a lot of experience and a
"systems programming toolkit" under your belt (classic bash shell
scripting, sed, awk, and perl_5 ), what does Raku/Perl6 add? The short
answer is:
There is potentially a place for Raku in education, as a language that
can evolve from simple expressions in the REPL to one-liners, basic
scripts and through to complete CS courses with the various
programming paradigms (procedural, O-O, functional) and into language
design with grammars.
The
On 2020-06-14 08:04, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman wrote:
Hi,
I had been a perl 5.0 user in the past. Ever since perl 6.0 was
announced, I waited, like many, indefinitely. At last perl 6.0 has just
started from its starting block and is also in the race. I am happy
about that.
Hi
I'd like to contribute with m 1 cent.
Perhaps I read an interesting point mentioned by Richard:
"- Perl regular expressions (regexes) are copied (badly??) by every !!!
other language. But Raku takes them much further, and more flexibilty.
After getting used to Raku regexes, I tear my hair out
Radhakrishnan,
I would be considered a non-developer and more of a system admin/architect.
I’ve used Perl 4/5 since the 1990s with success. My opinion of Python is not
particularly high, except that it is ubiquitous (like Perl 5). Ruby was not
unpleasant. I’ve sampled a few others, but
No particular "killer app" has emerged for Raku as
of yet, there's no task that's going to make you go
"Aha, this is a job for Raku!". But you know, it's
not as though the original perl was designed to be
the Web 1.0 server-side scripting language or the
saviour of the human genome project...
Hi,
If you allow me to jump in.
I have used scores of programming languages. For me, raku (as it is now
called) is the language to go to if I need a serious textual analysis of
any kind.
The design aspect of the language that I rely on heavily is the Grammar
class, which so fundamentally
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:56 Richard Hainsworth
wrote:
> Hi Radhakrishnan,
>
> If 'spreading wings over the information technology field' were to mean
> anything other than what is fashionable today, then C still reigns.
Richard, excellently said!
I would like to see that on our Raku.org
Hi Radhakrishnan,
If 'spreading wings over the information technology field' were to mean
anything other than what is fashionable today, then C still reigns.
And if anything, COBOL still is so important in big financial
institutions that COBOL programmers earn more than Java programmers - if
