Richard (>): > Just wanted to say that this afternoon I used rakudo for a real world need. > > It was only a simple script to extract data from a text file. But it took > all of 5 min from start to finish. > > Could have done it in perl5, but it really was easier to do it in perl6. > > As far as I am concerned, this marks a milestone for perl6. One I have been > waiting for for years.
I have similar experiences, but I created my first utility scripts -- whose function it was to test me on weekly batches of Chinese characters -- sometime early in the autumn. I remember feeling that it was a big step using Perl 6 to scratch a day-to-day itch. The script pulled out 10 random words out of the forty or so I had each week. In other words, thank you Perl 6 for teaching me a couple hundred Chinese words and characters! I might add that .pick() is a really useful function for this type of thing. :) // Carl
