[Purdue-pm] Perl 6 integer math, quantum computing, etc. talk

[Mark Daniel Ward]

Dear Mark,

This is pretty compelling, yes, indeed... especially for those of us who 
use computations for mathematics.  Thanks for sharing!

Mark



On 6/20/16 9:01 PM, Mark Senn wrote:
> Dr. Damian Conway worked closely with Larry Wall designing
> Perl 6.  He gave a very interesting Perl 6 talk about using
> Perl 6 for factoring numbers, and quantum computing.  See
>      https://youtu.be/Nq2HkAYbG5o
>      starting at 9:10
> It is an hour and three minutes long.  After you listen to
> the talk ask yourself "Why am I not using Perl 6 yet?".
>
> This talk doesn't contains very little to no information on regular
> expressions, grammars, object orientation, database interfacing, file
> operations with Perl but contains information about new Perl 6 functions
> that operate on integers, and doing quantum computing in Perl 6.  Many
> Perl 5 vs. Perl 6 comparisions are given and discussed.
>
> Damian is one of the best presenters I know of.
>
> -mark
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