[columbus.pm] What gets you excited about Perl?

[jon at hogue.org]

> 
> I have never been to Scottie MacBean's.  I gather it is a coffee shop. 
> What are the facilities like?  Will there be a projection screen? 
> Wireless LAN?  Am I correct in divining that the target time period is
> one hour?
It's a coffee shop/restaurant. They have wired LAN, but I haven't used it yet. 
I'll see if I can check out the networking features the next time I'm there.

I'll try to get a projector from work.


> Yea.  I don't know as much about it as I would like to though.  I
> haven't been following the lists.  I know they have been working on
> Parrot.  Have you tried Parrot?
> 
> I think Parrot is a great idea.  One bytecode to rule them all.  It
> seems so obvious after the fact.  With any luck we could have less
> duplication of effort and greater interoperability as a result.
I'm not sure that Parrot is even in a usable format yet. Unless you like writing 
in assembly....

Parrot will work well for perl-like languages(python, php), but not much use for 
other languages (.net, java). Certain features of Perl are mutally exclusive to 
features of .net and java.

It will be great for allowing the creation of code on one machine, and deploying 
the compiled code on another... Perl apps can be a pain in the butt to get 
running if you aren't familiar with perl. (you gotta install all the libraries)

 
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