Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-12 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
Hi, answering a bit late, but better late than never. A couple of uses of Perl 6 at $work. I'm working, among other things, on a very large application running on VMS (about 3,500 programs). We"re using a few dozens Perl programs on these platforms, but we're stuck with a very old version of Perl

RE: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Mark Devine
N6Ghost, I use Perl 6 exclusively now for "systems" work. - SSH commands to 500 systems to gather their info using promises/supplies/channels - make Perl 6 modules for cantankerous system management utilities, then write scripts that use my .pm6 modules for various purposes

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Vittore Scolari
Hi, whenever I want to have fun, and I need to parse a non-trivial file format, dealing with the output of special purpose software performing analysis on experimental data, I choose Perl 6 due to the fact that composability makes grammars very readable and logical-looking. On the other end, I

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Hi, I use Perl 6 all the time, wherever I can. But for some things I do, I can't use Perl 6, for example Android apps, or embedded chip programming. I have used a number of languages, starting with Fortran and assembler, then Pascal, Snobol, C and recently Java and php. Perl 6 can be used

Re: Perl6 use cases

2018-11-04 Thread Patrick Spek via perl6-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I've been using Perl 6 in my personal projects to create an IRC bot (using IRC::Client), a number of modules, and currently trying to set up a new mail environment with a management API built with Cro. At work, I've used Perl 6 to deal with