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Rakudo Star - "early adopter" Perl 6, released-> 4

Submitted by masak on Thursday July 29 2010, @07:49AM

masak writes "The developers of Rakudo, an actively developed implementation of Perl 6, give you their first "Rakudo Star" release. Quoting the announcement: 'These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.' It's been a long wait, and not everything is in place yet, but Perl 6 is definitely feeling less vapor-y today."
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Comment: Re:OO "fixed" in Perl 6 (Score 1) 963

by baest on Friday August 22 2008, @03:06AM (#24702097) Attached to: Why Corporates Hate Perl

I personly prefer:
method doit ($a, $b, $c) { ... }
to
method doit (::?CLASS $self: $a, $b, $c) { ... }

But of course the other suits your "argument" better. But I don't see a problem with being explicit if you must for some reason and being able to e.g. change $self into $this.

My experience is that I'm much more likely to be able to understand someone's Java or Ruby code than anything on CPAN. That holds true even for bad Java code that throws up a zillion warnings in Eclipse/PMD.

CPAN is like Java library implementation. How often do you read that? Secondly my opinion is the reverse, Java is so verbose that I have to read 2-4 times more code in Java than in Perl, which is harder to remember. Also somebody who doesn't know to write Perl, usually writes as in shell and that is pretty simple. I prefer flexibility over simplicity, therefore Perl to Java.