Re: Resource protection and Perl 6

2 comments:

first Perl 5 is here, and will be here for a long time,even after Perl 6 is released. Perl 6 being available does not mean you will be forced to upgrade, you will still be able to use Perl 5, including by using Perl 6 in compatibility mode as described in Apocalypse 1
the second comment is that Perl 6 is still Perl: I attended Damian's talk on Perl 6 where he converted a bunch of real-life scripts from Perl 5 to Perl 6. The result was still very much Perlish. It really looked like Perl, only better, whithout some of the clunkiest parts of the language . Too bad I can't find an online version.

So fear no more, your project will still run in Perl 5 AND in Perl 6, and you will not have to completely re-learn the language, just get used to a slightly different, but usually simpler, syntax.

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Re: Re: Resource protection and Perl 6 by Louis_Wu (Chaplain) on Jan 23, 2003 at 08:02 UTC
You may be referring to ...And Now for Something Completely Similar, by TheDamian. So let’s calmly back away from all those snarling differences, and turn our attention instead to the many aspects of Perl 6 that are staying the same (or, at least, reassuringly very similar). To do that, we’re going to make some of the Perl 6 design team “eat their own dog-food”. That is, we’ll take a few real-world Perl 5 programs that Nathan Torkington, Hugo van der Sanden, Dan Sugalski, Simon Cozens, and I use every day, port them to Perl 6, and see how much they actually change. Damian showed us `entar` and `untar` as examples of how he customizes his enviroment. Very cool.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Resource protection and Perl 6
by Louis_Wu (Chaplain) on Jan 23, 2003 at 08:02 UTC

...And Now for Something Completely Similar

TheDamian

So let’s calmly back away from all those snarling differences, and turn our attention instead to the many aspects of Perl 6 that are staying the same (or, at least, reassuringly very similar).
To do that, we’re going to make some of the Perl 6 design team “eat their own dog-food”. That is, we’ll take a few real-world Perl 5 programs that Nathan Torkington, Hugo van der Sanden, Dan Sugalski, Simon Cozens, and I use every day, port them to Perl 6, and see how much they actually change.

entar

untar

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