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Perlgeek.de Perlprogrammierung und mehr
Personal blog · perlgeek.de/blog-enprogramming
Perlgeek.de Perlprogrammierung und mehr is a personal blog at perlgeek.de about programming. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Pattern Matching and Unpacking”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Moritz Lenz's Perl blog, mainly on Perl 6 features and the Perl 5-to-6 article series. Commenters link these articles as background for Perl 6 and as a starting point for learning it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /en/article/5-to-63 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-08-01
- Pattern Matching and Unpacking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-13
- What is "Modern Perl"?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-16
What Hacker News says?
Perl does a pretty good job at optimizing such things: $ time perl -Mre=debug -e '(" " x 100000000 . "X") =~ /\s+$/ && print "MATCH"' Compiling REx "\s+$" Final program: 1: PLUS (3) 2: POSIXD[\s] (0) 3: EOL (4) 4: END (0) floating ""$ at 1..9223372036854775807 (checking floating) stclass POSIXD[\s] plus minlen 1 Matching REx "\s+$" against " "... Intuit: trying to determine minimum start position... Found floating s…
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-tips/in-search-of-an-exponetial-regexp.html
on “Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem”Submitted Perl 6 in 2011 - A Retrospection as a story · 67 points
HN discussionCan you imagine how weird I felt when I finished my "forever" project? Ever since school I wanted to write a simulation tool similar to one I've used in school, which basically lets you write differential equations in graphical form, and integrates them for you. And back when I was in school, I didn't know a thing about differential equations, and it all looked like amazing magic to me. And while studying physics, I…
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-6/physical-modelling.html
on “The joys of having a Forever Project”Submitted Perl 6 in 2010 - a retrospection as a story · 55 points
HN discussionI'm right there with you. Having a small core has several drawbacks. Having a LARGE core does as well, and mostly that any modules in the Perl core seem to also have their API and features frozen in time. Even if those features and API are not so good - it's in core! So, there's a reason to keep them how broken they are for backwards-compatibility sake. I've also felt the burn of a core module that's then removed, a…
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-6/how-core-is-core.html
on “Perl 6 Introduction”Submitted What is "Modern Perl"? as a story · 45 points
HN discussionHere are some links showing recent Perl6 content/code: * Perl6 advent calendar: http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/ * Moritz Lenz perl6 blog: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/ * Carl Masak perl* blog & github projects: http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/ http://github.com/masak * Perl6 planet: http://planetsix.perl.org/ * Perl6 book: http://github.com/perl6/book * Perl6 examples: http://github.com/perl6/perl6-examples
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-6/
on “Why Perl 6 is different”Submitted What you can write in Perl 6 today as a story · 32 points
HN discussionWhat do you think of the destructuring features in Perl 6 as discussed for example at http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/2013-pattern-matching.html ?
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-6/2013-pattern-matching.html
on “ES6 in Depth: Destructuring”Submitted Sprixel, a Perl6 compiler powered by JavaScript as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYou may want to read the Apocalypse documents ( http://perl6.org/archive/doc/apocalypse.html ) and the Exegeses ( http://perl6.org/archive/doc/exegesis.html ). Perl 6 improves upon Perl 5 in countless ways. One of the strongest parts of perl, the regular expressions, have received further improvements. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules Finally, if you are familiar with Perl 5, there's special docu…
Comment linking /en/article/5-to-6
on ““2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use””Submitted Why is it hard to write a compiler for Perl 6? as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIt is optimised for fun. http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/optimized-for-fun.html
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-6/optimized-for-fun.html
on “New Perl 6 Homepage”Submitted Why you don't need the Y combinator in Perl 6 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAs noted in other comments here Parrot & LLVM are not mutually exclusive. Parrot has been compiled on LLVM as can be seen on this post: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/news/parrot-buids-with-llvm-gcc.w...
Comment linking /blog-en/news/parrot-buids-with-llvm-gcc.writeback
on “Why Parrot is Important”Submitted Perl 6 in 2009 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAnyone using Perl 6? What is your experience? Is it mature enough for serious use or should we stay with Perl 5? This article http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6 shows a glimps of the features of Perl 6.
Comment linking /en/article/5-to-6
on “Why Perl?”Submitted Programming Languages are not Zero-Sum as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf you use the standard debhelper toolchain instead, you get lots of stuff for free. Want to ship a systemd service file? include "--with systemd" in the dh invocation in debian/rules (and add dh-systemd as a build dependency), and you can drop your system files in debian/yourpackage.service. The helper will do all the work for you like copying the service file to the right location, doing the "daemon-reload" to mak…
Comment linking /blog-en/automating-deployments/2016-005-example-project.html
on “Debian Packaging Tutorial – Feedback Welcome”Submitted Git Flow vs. Continuous Delivery as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>>you're saying Modern Perl, they're saying Modern Perl. What is it about? It is a bit debated. See e.g. http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-tips/what-is-modern-perl.htm... Also, at the risk of sounding ironic I must ask -- you are really not aware of a web service called "Google" and its (many) competitors? Try e.g. this when you see unknown terms: http://www.google.com/search?&q=modern+perl >>ironic how they praise pn…
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-tips/what-is-modern-perl.html
on “Technical details for a MMOG in perl”Submitted Contributing to a compiler isn't really hard or dark magic as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCheck out the PDF of the draft of the Perl 6 book in the R * distribution (as docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf or something similar). The Perl 5 to 6 articles at http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6 are very helpful even if you aren't familiar with Perl 5. One thing to remember about them is that they describe Perl 6 as specified, regardless of whether any of the implementations fully support the relevant features. The Per…
Comment linking /en/article/5-to-6
on “Welcome Rakudo Star”Submitted Pattern Matching and Unpacking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGenerically these are called twigils, ie. it has a second sigil. This second sigil describes what it does differently to single sigil variable. For eg. an asterisk denotes a contextual twigil variable... $*IN # equiv to STDIN in perl5 $*OUT # and STDOUT The ^ twigils denote placeholder variables . In Perl5 there is already implicily defined package variables called $a & $b so that you can do... sort { $a <=> $b } @a…
Comment linking /en/article/5-to-6
on “Idiomatic Perl 6”Submitted The first Perl 6 module on CPAN as a story · 3 points
HN discussionperl6 is a huge leap beyond the current crop of interpreted languages. Go through this content to get an idea: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
on “Schwern's perl5i makes Perl 5 awesomer until Perl 6 comes along. (via Perlbuzz)”Submitted You Write Your Own Bio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome context: * http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/28-currying.html * http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/40431
Comment linking /blog-en/perl-5-to-6/28-currying.html
on “Whatever - a perl6ish whatever-star for perl5”Submitted Protected Attributes Make No Sense as a story · 2 points
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