Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 01/01/11 03:41, Daniel Carrera wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before they start using Perl 6. There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: >> I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before >> they >> start using Perl 6. >> >> There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just Rakudo. I'm afraid of >> Raku

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: > I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before they > start using Perl 6. > > There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just Rakudo. I'm afraid of > Rakudo is cancelled, I don't want to make my product based on an un

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Carrera of "Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:20:33 +0100." > For amusement, below I include the same program > in FORTRAN II and Fortran 90. That was delightful -- thanks! --tom

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:02, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> We will have questions about usage of Perl 5 and we think there should >> be also questions >> about Perl 6. > > Should Perl 6 be called something else? >   * No >   * Yes, not sure what

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:02, Gabor Szabo wrote: > We will have questions about usage of Perl 5 and we think there should > be also questions > about Perl 6. Should Perl 6 be called something else? * No * Yes, not sure what * Yes, [] Maybe a question on perceived benefits for an al

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.12 released

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > For C, see https://github.com/jnthn/zavolaj > Fortran uses the same calling conventions, albeit with weird name > mangling rules that depend on the compiler. So you can use Zavolaj for > Fortran too, if you're ready to suffer. Hmm... I don't l

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.12 released

2010-12-31 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 12/31/2010 03:31 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Out of curiosity, is it possible to get Rakukdo to talk to C, C++ or Fortran? For C, see https://github.com/jnthn/zavolaj Fortran uses the same calling conventions, albeit with weird name mangling rules that depend on the compiler. So you can use Zav

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.12 released

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
Out of curiosity, is it possible to get Rakukdo to talk to C, C++ or Fortran? On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to > announce the December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable > distribution