Tag Archives: Perl 6
Benchmarking Perl 6: How Ready for Prime Time Is It?
Here are the slides from the talk I gave at this month’s Boston Perl Mongers meeting, this past Tuesday: Benchmarking Perl 6: How Ready for Prime Time Is It? The talk examines: Perl 6’s suitability for “production.” (Your definition may … Continue reading
More Simple Stats with Perl 6
Last time, a time long, long ago, in a universe far, far away, I left you with the following Perl 6 code (or something like it). This code reads in a series of book heights and displays the number of … Continue reading
Some Simple Stats with Perl 6
When my daughter told me she was taking statistics, I wondered how she could do that without knowing any calculus. Then on second thought, I guess there is a certain amount you can do with statistics, even without knowing any … Continue reading
How Fast (or Slow) Is Perl 6?
In my previous post, I created a short, simple, sweet, and très élégant Perl 6 function to find all the primes up to a given maximum. Unfortunately, Rakudo spent over 11 seconds to find the 168 primes up to 1000. … Continue reading
Perl 6 and the Price of Elegant Code
The project that first made me fall in love with Perl… Perl 5 had recently launched, with new features for object-oriented programming, includable modules, lexically scoped variables, and references—including closures. At the time, I was writing boot code, diagnostics, and … Continue reading
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Perl 6’s Top 3 Coolest Features
Perl 6 has some really cool features. Features I’d like to use in production projects. But is Perl 6 suitable for production? I keep hearing, no, because it’s unstable, the spec is still being hammered out, there are still too … Continue reading
