Re^3: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl?

Pythonistas like to claim having a multi-paradigm language and right in the next phrase they'll tell you that there shouldn't be more than one way to do it.

Perl for instance is far closer to LISP, lambdas (anonymous subs) are not restricted to one statement and Perl's my is provides a declaration like LISP's let lacking in Ruby, Python and to some extent even in JS.

I had the privilege to see a presentation of a Python module which was a port from Ruby, and it's almost ridiculous to see how they try to circumvent the limitations of their syntax to be able to reflect real lamdas ("code-blocks" in Ruby).

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^4: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl? by Arunbear (Prior) on Mar 12, 2014 at 18:18 UTC
But they do have let and lambdas, and even macros :)	[reply]
Re^5: Something to meditate on -- the need for a trendy perl? by LanX (Saint) on Mar 13, 2014 at 01:24 UTC
hehe! xD Well you know at the end of this talk Guido recommends to use precompilers for such new features. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply]