Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-20 Thread Moritz Lenz
Perl wrote: > One of the main fears with this name, "Rakudo Perl 6" - at least when > it first came out, is that describing Rakudo Perl as, "An > implementation (one of possibly, many) of the Perl 6 Specification, > built on top of the Parrot Virtual Machine", will leave people going, > >

rakudo on cygwin

2009-01-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Is there a rakudo package for cygwin? There's parrot and parrot-languages, but none of them seems to include anything that looks like "rakudo" or "perl6". Do i have to build it myself to try it? Or didn't i look well enough? Thanks in advance. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordp

Re: first real perl6 use

2009-01-20 Thread Carl Mäsak
Richard (>): > Just wanted to say that this afternoon I used rakudo for a real world need. > > It was only a simple script to extract data from a text file. But it took > all of 5 min from start to finish. > > Could have done it in perl5, but it really was easier to do it in perl6. > > As far as I

Re: first real perl6 use

2009-01-20 Thread howard chen
Hey, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Just wanted to say that this afternoon I used rakudo for a real world need. > > It was only a simple script to extract data from a text file. But it took > all of 5 min from start to finish. > > Could have done it in perl5, but it

first real perl6 use

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Just wanted to say that this afternoon I used rakudo for a real world need. It was only a simple script to extract data from a text file. But it took all of 5 min from start to finish. Could have done it in perl5, but it really was easier to do it in perl6. As far as I am concerned, this mark