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A little OT, sorry for any inconvenience.

And would you care to explain the difference between a "language" and a "tool language"? I see a programming language as a tool to build programs with,

What is a tool language? I think it should be meet below three demands(suggestions are welcome ;)):

Tool language is for system admin, DBA, or such else. Because they are a special part in IT circle. they maintain a system or a program which they don't know deeply. They are not programmer; They won't be interested in inherit, delegation or something else; all they concern are whether is a easy-used hammer to mend the system fast. That is why they like perl5,awk but not java, C++. Okay, as I mentioned before, perl6 OO is great, but it, I mean OO, is meaningless to the script less than 300 lines.

Again, I don't say perl6 is not good, I just say perl6 is too like a regular language or say language for teaching. I hope to see perl6 can provide a way to those people are not received formal programming training.



I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction

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Re^5: In praise of Perl's object system.
by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2010 at 12:17 UTC
    I see what your concern is, and it's one I don't share at all.

    Just because Perl 6 is a fundamentally object oriented language doesn't mean you have to write classes to use it. Hello World is still just say "Hello World", and not class Hello { public static void main(Array args) { system.out.println("Hello, World"); } }.

    In fact Perl 6 can be used quite well as an imperative or even functional language, and most of day to day Perl 6 usage is small, one-off scripts.

    I can recommend jnthn's talk Perl 6: For Little Tools and Large Applications.

    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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      Thank moritz and jnthn! The article is fabulous. And the section of for the small tools perfectly answer my question.

      BTW. Native Call Module sounds great. Is it a builtin module of Rakudo? And does perl6 have more powerful mechanism like XS in the future? It seems that S21 has been a little bit stale.


      I am trying to improve my English skills, if you see a mistake please feel free to reply or /msg me a correction

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        NativeCall.pm is included in blizkost, and is installed by default in the Rakudo Star distribution.

        Besides that I don't know anything about the Perl 6 <-> C interaction, but we do want to avoid the XS mess for Perl 6.

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      Thanks for the link to jnthn's talk! Dunno how I missed that. There should be a link to it on perl6.org/documentation, IMO.

      BTW, noticed what looks like a 2 typos:

      • page 25: no closing single-quote mark at the end
      • page 58: after "destination" there's a '>' and then a small closing french quote mark.
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Re^5: In praise of Perl's object system.
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2010 at 09:27 UTC
    perl6 的目的是为了更好的方便使用，仅此而已，语法糖只是个表面。
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Re^5: In praise of Perl's object system.
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2010 at 09:31 UTC
    你的担心是多余的，据我所知，perl6 只是把perl5 能做到的的变的更简单，把perl5不能做到的变的可以做到。
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