I agree, perl6 can be the glue language in academics which can be used to
showcase different computing concepts, be it methodologies - functional,
oops,procedural -, parallelism, VM, antlr etc.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:29 AM Peter Scott wrote:
> I have seen Damian demonstrate how Perl 6 can be th
I have seen Damian demonstrate how Perl 6 can be the best language for
teaching functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming.
On 1/19/2016 10:37 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
I very much agree with this idea, of arguing Perl 6 as a teaching
language. Academia are the ones that would appre
I very much agree with this idea, of arguing Perl 6 as a teaching language.
Academia are the ones that would appreciate what Perl 6 offers the most in the
short term, whereas industry would demand a higher standard for it becoming
popular. And the first can lead to the second. -- Darren Duncan
I believe Damian Conway thinks P6 would be a very good CS teaching language.
On 1/19/16, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Steve Mynott
> wrote:
>> I think targeting Perl 6 at CS academic teachers is an excellent idea
>> as a way of generally promoting use of the language.
>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Steve Mynott wrote:
> I think targeting Perl 6 at CS academic teachers is an excellent idea
> as a way of generally promoting use of the language.
>
> But I'd be wary of "bashing" current choices such as Python and don't
> believe any objective comparison of the t
I think targeting Perl 6 at CS academic teachers is an excellent idea
as a way of generally promoting use of the language.
But I'd be wary of "bashing" current choices such as Python and don't
believe any objective comparison of the two languages is possible.
Python is in any case derived from AB
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:06 AM, yary wrote:
> Good idea. Not sure if it needs to compare with Python explicitly. The
> message is that it's a great language for learning programming on its
> own; the reader can see that from the positive examples given and make
> any comparisons to other languag
Good idea. Not sure if it needs to compare with Python explicitly. The
message is that it's a great language for learning programming on its
own; the reader can see that from the positive examples given and make
any comparisons to other languages while reading. No need to give
space away to any oth
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, I suggested that the dissatisfied professor consider Perl 6 as
it would meet his requ