Re: what can I do with perl 6 today ?
2008/7/1 Guy Hulbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2008-01-07 at 19:44 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: That's why I created the http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today page on the wiki at the very end (December 29th) of 2007. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?fibonacci_sequence Originally designed as an exercise in addition for students, the Fibonacci Sequence has some really interesting mathematical properties This statement looks made up to me (if I had a login, i'd fix it ...). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci Can't remember where I (or possibly) someone else got that from. You (or anyone else) can use openid, or get a socialtext account trivially - failing that reply to this thread with copy for a better page -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
Re: what can I do with perl 6 today ?
On Wed, 2008-02-07 at 11:53 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci Can't remember where I (or possibly) someone else got that from. I suspect it is a quote from some professor's course notes. It is not an unreasonable inference but any good mathematician should be familiar with at least some of the the first wikipedia page. I looked at the second page because I thought it might validate the statement on the perl6 wiki but it really doesn't. You (or anyone else) can use openid, or get a socialtext account trivially - failing that I know. reply to this thread with copy for a better page Sorry, I really don't have time. I would just add the wikipedia reference to the page and delete the offending statement. It could be replaced with note on Fibonacci, Liber Abaci, the date when Fib. was active and a reference to the Hindu origins (which I was unaware of and found really interesting ... so thanks [to whoever is responsible] for the original statement or I wouldn't have looked ;-). -- --gh
what can I do with perl 6 today ?
Hi All, As I've said before, I think pretty handy yardstick of measuring progress with Perl 6 Language and Compilers, is seeing just what you can actually do with it today, now, this minute.. That's why I created the http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today page on the wiki at the very end (December 29th) of 2007. A couple of people have added some small modifications, but basically nobody has added anything much to it apart from me, and I wanted somebody else to answer the question for me, not do all the work myself :( Anyway - if you are playing with perl 6, can you do everybody a massive favour, and try something out with it and put it up on the page, just say what version of what compiler, how fast it ran (even if it's just wallclock seconds off a clock on a wall, or your retro swatch watch with no seconds hand :), and what worked and what didn't. Cheers, A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
Re: what can I do with perl 6 today ?
On Tue, 2008-01-07 at 19:44 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: That's why I created the http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today page on the wiki at the very end (December 29th) of 2007. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?fibonacci_sequence Originally designed as an exercise in addition for students, the Fibonacci Sequence has some really interesting mathematical properties This statement looks made up to me (if I had a login, i'd fix it ...). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Abaci -- --gh
RE: Help with the What can I do with Perl 6 today wiki page
From: Aaron Trevena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I started the What can I do with Perl 6 today wiki page at the start of the year, but have been too busy with $paid_work to put much time into it since. I was hoping anybody who's written perl 6 code and run it with Rakudo or pugs could help fill in the gaps - there are a list of common/usual programming problems (please add more, for example from the P99 list), each requires a solution in perl 6 and a status message of whether it runs, errors or is blindingly fast (or make a cup of tea and watch some TV slow). Any contribution would be helpful - you don't have to benchmark, or use the latest version, or you could just add benchmarks to others with newer or older versions. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_toda y I've reorganized that page somewhat, and added a table of contents. I also added some links to current Perl 6 news, so that visitors have fallback pending the addition of new material. Best regards, Conrad Schneiker www.AthenaLab.com Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 Official Parrot Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot
Help with the What can I do with Perl 6 today wiki page
Hi All, I started the What can I do with Perl 6 today wiki page at the start of the year, but have been too busy with $paid_work to put much time into it since. I was hoping anybody who's written perl 6 code and run it with Rakudo or pugs could help fill in the gaps - there are a list of common/usual programming problems (please add more, for example from the P99 list), each requires a solution in perl 6 and a status message of whether it runs, errors or is blindingly fast (or make a cup of tea and watch some TV slow). Any contribution would be helpful - you don't have to benchmark, or use the latest version, or you could just add benchmarks to others with newer or older versions. Cheers, A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
Re: what can I do in perl 6 today?
jerry gay skribis 2007-12-28 6:46 (-0800): if we had a smoke machine (e.g. feather.perl6.nl) that frequently built the various implementations (pugs, kp6, perl6,) ran the perl 6 test suite against each implementation, and posted color-coded tabulated html results, it would offer a way for folks to compare implementations directly. we don't have this right now. smolder (http://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder) is what we have in mind to use. The machine is there, it just needs people to operate it! If a cleaner compartiment is needed for smoking (sounds paradoxal), I can create a separate virtual machine for that. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
