Re: perl6 vs ruby

2020-03-03 Thread Fields, Christopher J
A few people had started a port of some BioPerl code to Perl6 a while ago; I tested this recently and it still passed tests. https://github.com/cjfields/bioperl6 It should be renamed to bioraku! Chris Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-03-31 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Tom Browder mailto:tom.brow...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Elizabeth Mattijsen mailto:l...@dijkmat.nl>> wrote: > On 31 Mar 2016, at 14:12, Tom Browder > > wrote: > Liz, it's a simple reader of a text file. The only line processing is a > prin

Re: books on p6?

2016-03-11 Thread Fields, Christopher J
Of course! the base URL has posts :P http://www.learningperl6.com/ Knew I saw it somewhere... Chris On Mar 11, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Fields, Christopher J mailto:cjfie...@illinois.edu>> wrote: The below link indicates an update in Dec. 2015. I also recall seeing something after the Chr

Re: books on p6?

2016-03-11 Thread Fields, Christopher J
The below link indicates an update in Dec. 2015. I also recall seeing something after the Christmas release, maybe from brian d foy, which indicated this is still being worked on. http://www.learningperl6.com/book/ Chris > On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:56 AM, Will Coleda wrote: > > ISTR that link h

Re: Problem found with PERL6LIB environment variable

2015-06-08 Thread Fields, Christopher J
I had the same problem recently, tied to the revised path names (e.g. the ‘file#’ prefix). Any reason for the change? Kinda caught me by surprise. chris > On Jun 8, 2015, at 11:51 AM, mt1957 wrote: > > ls, > > Found another problem in the new rakudo (understood that was from 4/8). > Versio

Re: Is there an equivalent env var to PERL5LIB for Perl 6 module locations?

2015-03-31 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Mar 31, 2015, at 6:28 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 05:40:44AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Rob Hoelz wrote: >>> Yup, PERL6LIB. =) >> >> And how did you find out about it, i.e., where is it documented? > > http://doc.perl6.org/language

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-09 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:51 PM, "Fields, Christopher J" wrote: > > >> On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:25 PM, "t...@wakelift.de" wrote: >> >> >>> On 08/10/2014 12:21 AM, t...@wakelift.de wrote: >>> Something that does surprise me is that your t

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-09 Thread Fields, Christopher J
> On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:25 PM, "t...@wakelift.de" wrote: > > >> On 08/10/2014 12:21 AM, t...@wakelift.de wrote: >> Something that does surprise me is that your tests seem to imply that :p >> for subparse doesn't work. I'll look into that, because I believe it >> ought to be implemented already.

Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-09 Thread Fields, Christopher J
(accidentally sent to perl6-lang, apologies for cross-posting but this seems more appropriate) I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility of using grammars with commonly used biological data formats. My main question: if I wanted to parse() or subparse() vary large files (not