Great idea!
I always thought Perl in general was quite suited for show casing and
learning with different styles and ways of solving problems. It's
flexibility is a key element in that. Especially in CS, students need to
learn that there is more then one way to do it and be able to compare
those d
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
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Andrew Kirkpatrick
wrote:
...
> That said I don't think that those fine folk on Perlmonks are all that
correct about the lack of a business case for Perl6, and the degree to
> which they are will fall significantly in the next few years. Already
...
> Businesses
I agree that getting Perl6 into the curricula is a good idea, and
comparing it to Python if done reasonably and politely would help the
cause of those who want to migrate their course over.
That said I don't think that those fine folk on Perlmonks are all that
correct about the lack of a business
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
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