[Oc-pm] Per6 - A gentle introduction

[Hao Wu]

Thanks Ramana for the talk and take time to prepare the code example.  I
may steal some from your sides or use it as is to give a talk in the
company.

BTW, I also take the quiz to learn Perl6 and here is the code
http://blog.meihao.us/tech/2015/09/29/more-feeling-about-Perl6.html



On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Ramana V Mokkapati <mvr707 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> It was my pleasure sharing a bit of my excitement about the new language
> at this month's OCPM meeting.
> Recapping some takeaways...
>
>
>    1. Perl6 elevated the traditional "Parsing for Computation" to
>    "Parsing as Computation". Perl6 Grammars would likely make it a language of
>    choice for creating new tools and frameworks.
>    2. Basic underlying developer centric design philosophy of Perl5
>    carried over to Perl6. Both languages seem joined at the hip, esp. when you
>    consider interoperable data structures. Upgrades are attractive too, esp.
>    slices, aliases, Meta Object Protocol (MOP), sound mathematical treatment
>    (complex numbers, rationals and reals, sets, bags etc).
>    3. Inline::Perl6 and Inline::Perl5 create bridge with low barrier for
>    entry.
>    4. Important to note Perl5 continues to be developed as ModernPerl and
>    may have juice for another decade, while the new engine picks up steam.
>
>
> Overall, it is somewhat like we found a new beautiful home, and we just
> need to figure out how to pay for it. :-) I am referring to the
> performance. Hopefully, the underlying virtual machines (Parrot, JVM,
> MoarVM) will come to rescue. I recall hearing a comment that a language as
> beautiful and as powerful deserves a compiler - hope that was just not a
> comment, and may be someone is already working on that - if thats the case,
> we will have added bonus! :)
>
> Slides:
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zQ3wbL4aH4fs5hsCicl9nKHTy_RGVKXKgig8wnok_aw/edit?usp=sharing
> Code: https://github.com/mvr707/samples/tree/master/perl6
>
>
>
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