[Purdue-pm] Follow up on Per 6 objects
Rick Westerman
westerman at purdue.edu
Wed Feb 13 07:54:49 PST 2008
Mark's talk last night about Perl 6 objects or, more appropriately,
the lack of Perl 6 brings up this add-on to Perl 5. It is a way to
bring a lot of Perl 6 objects to Perl 5. The add-on is called 'Moose'
and, as the author succinctly put it,
"I built Moose because I was tired of writing the same old boring
Perl 5 OO code, and drooling over Perl 6 OO. So instead of switching to
Ruby, I wrote Moose :)"
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose.pm
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose
IMHO, it would be a good idea to have one (or more) of us look over
Moose and report back at the next PM technical meeting. Any takers?
Another IMHO, after Mark's talk last night I am beginning to doubt
if we will ever see Perl 6 in production. Since Perl 5 is getting a
beating from the other modern languages, e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby
and even JavaScript, it seems like the way that Perl will survive is to
bolt on the good ideas into Perl 5 ... even at the risk of making the
language yet more cumbersome and not clean.
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