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Damian Conway Talk from July 31, 2001by lemming (Priest) |
on Aug 01, 2001 at 12:35 UTC ( [id://101330]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
So I got a msg from Ovid asking if I was going to the Conway talk at OGI later in the day. I panic, run around frantically and get myself over there in time. phew! Major ++ to Ovid for alerting me. (And now I know I've dropped myself off perlmongers again. Hurm.) To echo Conway on Quantum::Superpositions and Conway's Extreme Perl talk, if you have the chance to attend a lecture by Damian Conway "Take it!" It's really kick started my brain again. Most of the lecture was contained in
Perl6.v2.pdf
though that is an update to
Perl6.pdf
which still contains much of the info. You may
need to switch back and forth to get everything.
I took a lot from this lecture. A lot that had to do with Perl, but some only partially. A nice thought on Kwalitee Control which I think I've now paraphrased into "You can measure how bad something is, but it's hard to measure how good it is." Hopefully, merlyn will post his very strict pragma. Now at the beginning of the lecture, Damian did say everything was in the Perl6 pdf. Not strictly true, most of the dry stuff is contained there. For instance in the timeline, it doesn't mention beer being invented and that making perlmongers possible. By the the time you read this, he may change "C++ released" to "C++ savagely mauls keepers and escapes" One thing that was repeated is that a lot of what Perl6 is going to do is already there for Perl5 as a module. However, Perl6 will be faster. And Perl5 is predicted to be viable for at least 5 more years, if not 10. It looks like the mechanism that will allow Perl5 to be run in Perl6 can be extended to other languages as well. Stuff that made me perk up: (A Binary doesn't need to be treated as a string for example Code snippets that will work as expected in Perl 6 possibly: The filehandle one will work kind of under Perl5, it will suck in all of the file and then hand back the first three lines. Under Perl6 it will just read the first 3 lines. One item in the pdf needs correcting Update:
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