[hbpm] Perl 6

[George Woolley]

Daniel,

On Thursday 24 July 2003 11:05 pm, Daniel Hopkirk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I cant say that I have been keeping up with the Perl 6 info. I have barely
> done anything with Perl 5 lately. Work has taken precedence. However, I
> have just enjoyed making a 10 minute script to parse a set of log files of
> chats for given words.
Well, I certainly can relate to work coming first.

> Rules instrad of Regexes? Lol. I still have trouble remembering the latter.
> However, I still think that Perl is a briliant and powerfull language, and
> fully welcome the pregression and evolution of the language.
Well, it looks like rules 
will be much more readable and much less mysterious than regexes.
Also more powerful.

> You now have me intrigued. I guess I'll have to find time to sift through
> some info to learn about these 'rules'!
Here's my suggestions when at some point you have time.
For the why see Apocalypse 5 (Larry Wall) at
   http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/5
For a summary, see Synopsis 5 (Damian Conway and Allison Randal)
   http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/5.html

> Thanks for your continued support for our mailing list George, even when
> you get little or no response (Yes, I'm guilty). 
Well, I like what you have done.
At some point, I think it will take off.

> Your site also is also
> full of interesting bits and pieces that regularly take my spare time. My
> compliments go to you.
Thanks for your kind words about http://oakland.pm.org/
(I think that's the site you are talking about.)

> Regards,
> Daniel Hopkirk
> http://hawkesbay.pm.org
> ICQ#:39905948
George

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Woolley" <george at metaart.org>
> To: <hawkesbay at mail.pm.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:38 PM
> Subject: [hbpm] Perl 6
>
> > The Perl 6 evolving definition is intriguing.
> > I'm particularly pleased with rules in Perl 6
> > (which replace the regexes of Perl 5).
> >
> > Does anyone here care about Perl 6?
> > Are there particular aspects of it you like?
> >
> > George
> >
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> >
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