ok but BrowserUK already mentioned threads, lightweight threads for Perl5 and POE.. so what else would you possibly need ? | [reply] |
ok but BrowserUK already mentioned ... lightweight threads for Perl5
I didn't say that we had lightweight threads for Perl5. Or even that they were possible at this point, though they might be, but I do not antisipate seeing them any time soon. But they could (and I believe should), be at the core of Perl6.
As for what a sysadmin might "possibly need" from Perl 6. That's a non-argument. Everything that you can do in Perl 5 can be done from C or assembler, but few of use would prefer to do our daily work there.
And the more transient and informal our scripts are--lots of sysadmin scripts are one-offs--the less likely we are to want to write at those levels. Try writing this in C or assembler:
perl -e"open $fh[$_],'>','split.'.$_ for 0..9"
-nle"print {$fh[substr $_,3,1]} $_" big.log
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I've no idea what that does and I've been coding Perl for some time now. That's one of the problems of Perl... probably the reason why it will succumb
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I mean you already have all that stuff in Perl5...
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