Re: first real perl6 use

2009-01-20 Thread howard chen
Hey, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > 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

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-13 Thread howard chen
Hello, On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >Naturally, the "Diamonds" mentioned above would include a particular > templating system, some XML support, modules for various useful protocols, > and the like. Yes, I think no one argue whether Perl can be a modern, fu

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-12 Thread howard chen
Hello, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Henk van Oers wrote: >> >> It can be done as a library, take a look at Perl6 grammars. > > It has been done for perl5. See PLP on CPAN. Sure there are many way to do this in Perl already. But better have a single, standard, and out-of-the-box solution.

Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-11 Thread howard chen
Hello, I love perl for its rich set of modules but PHP is a better template language for web developments. Wouldn't it be great to see if Perl6 support it? E.g. as contrast to Howard