Re: Object Introspection for Existence of Methods: How?

2015-03-23 Thread B. Estrade
As good as this book is, it's still Perl 5 specific. So watch out if you're coming from Perl 5 land and Heaven forbid you're looking to do traditional things, you might get scolded for asking a reasonable question. o_O. Brett On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > On 2

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, I suggested that the di

Re: Perl 6 adoption

2016-06-27 Thread B. Estrade
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should all be thinking about the "killer application" for Perl 6; > the sort of job that is made so much easier by it that people will > overlook all sorts of problems. > Look towards the kinds of problems being solve

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-14 Thread B. Estrade
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:01:10AM +0800, howard chen wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Henk van Oers wrote: > >> > >> It can be done as a library, take a look at Perl6 grammars. > > > > It has been done for perl5. See PLP on CPAN. > > > Sure there are many way to do this in

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread B. Estrade
simple, easy to look at, and not overly complicated with meaning or cleverness. my $0.02. Brett -- B. Estrade http://www.loni.org

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-23 Thread B. Estrade
Perl 6 doesnt get seen as a >>novelty or toy and people simply never use it if this hasnt already >>happened. Ruby is passing Perl by like Python did. >> >> >> >>-Dell >>On Nov 22, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Tadeusz So??nierz wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 16:59:52 Wendell Hatcher wrote: >>>>Are there people using Perl 6 in production at this time? Is Perl 6 >>>>production ready? >>>http://ttjjss.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/what-is-production-ready/ >>>Kind regards, >>>-- >>>Tadeusz So??nierz > > -- B. Estrade

Re: Production Ready Perl 6?

2011-11-24 Thread B. Estrade
x27;s success as ever. However, I don't consider Perl 6 a "new" Perl anymore than I considered New Coke a rightful successor back in the day because a successor wasn't necessary. Maybe Perl 6 is more like Diet Coke, which is considered a closely related product that has it&#