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re: 5 Powerful Programming Languages to Stretch Your Brain Sep 29 '19

Perl 6 (perl6.org) belongs to the same family, but it's a t...

re: First work report of GSoC! Jun 24 '19

We'll incorporate all that, little by little, to the actual...

re: GSoC 2019! Jun 20 '19

You're doing great work, Antonio. Keep it up!

re: Perl Weekly Challenge week #1 challenge #2: FizzBuzz Mar 30 '19

Ah.. Right. Thanks!

re: Let's find something better than LaTeX Jan 14 '19

I pretty much agree with everything you've said. LaTeX is ...

re: What technology do you want to learn in 2019? Dec 30 '18

You should really give Perl 6 a try. Functional, reactive, ...

re: Retraction of an Obituary Dec 30 '18

I didn't mean niche to be dismissive. I use it in the biol...

re: Retraction of an Obituary Dec 29 '18

I very much agree with most of what you have said. The deve...

re: What's a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don't have? Nov 30 '18

Perl 6 grammars They go many steps further than simple rege...

re: The point of freedom Nov 15 '18

Thing is, you can still make money out of it if you give th...

re: The point of freedom Nov 15 '18

It's because free software is more about the freedom of oth...

re: Degree, Bootcamp, or Self-Taught: Thoughts on How to Choose Nov 3 '18

That's bad. Higher education should be the equalizer of peo...

re: Degree, Bootcamp, or Self-Taught: Thoughts on How to Choose Nov 3 '18

In Europe, a degree might be, in fact, the cheapest way to ...

re: Title suggestions for a history of computer science mini web series?! Oct 7 '18

.history (can't believe no one has suggested this so far)

re: Thoughts on interpreted vs compiled languages? Sep 22 '18

Well, Java is slower than almost anything in Regexes (and a...

re: Thoughts on interpreted vs compiled languages? Sep 22 '18

You can't just "win" at performance. It will depend on payl...

re: Thoughts on interpreted vs compiled languages? Sep 22 '18

That's the case for JavaScript, but most interpreted langua...

re: Perl is Perl Aug 21 '18

Around and kicking, and progressing to a modern, progressiv...

re: Which programming language/environment is more “powerful” than people realize? Jun 3 '18

You probably expected this, but I'm gonna say Perl 6. Relea...

re: Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 21 edition) May 22 '18

I am working on the Perl 6 documentation. And we need your ...

re: We need your help with the Perl 6 documentation May 22 '18

That's great! There are a couple of issues that will help y...

re: What kind of breaks do you take throughout the work day? May 20 '18

When I stay at home for working on non-academic stuff (as i...

re: Evergreen skills to use throughout your career? May 4 '18

Read and interpret error messages. That will help you throu...

re: Electronic friendly Graffiti Mar 11 '18

Cool!

re: What are you working on these days? Feb 18 '18

And a great talk it was. MindFlex was mindboggling, too. (n...

re: Hardware + Collaborative art Feb 8 '18

I'll take pictures next Wednesday when it's put to work :-)

re: Hardware + Collaborative art Feb 8 '18

Great!

re: Perl6 Multi Method Signatures : Self Introspection Jan 21 '18

Sorry again, Simon. The trailing colon separates (please ch...

re: Perl6 Multi Method Signatures : Self Introspection Jan 21 '18

Thanks!

re: Perl6 Multi Method Signatures : Self Introspection Jan 21 '18

Sorry, Simon, I don't seem to be able to parse this: Simp...

re: Security Sprint week 9: Privacy politics and the internet Jan 21 '18

There were probably vested interests that wanted it to fail...

re: What was the worst bug you've ever written? Jan 13 '18

I wrote a paper submission system for a conference, PPSN, b...

re: Mastering IRC tool irssi + scripting Jan 8 '18

And bots...

re: Security Sprint: week 6 - Perl, forensic and new limits Dec 27 '17

And I'm the proud cloud computing teacher. You rock!

re: Which modern languages use grammars as a basic feature? Dec 16 '17

Yep, I meant as part of the language itself. As you say, th...

re: Learning Functional Programming Dec 14 '17

You might want to give Perl6 a try. Although it's not purel...

re: Lazy habits in linux terminal Dec 10 '17

Well, I don't know. You might have some secret information ...

re: Why do people like Perl? Dec 10 '17

It's relatively simple, similar to other languages so learn...

re: Lazy habits in linux terminal Nov 30 '17

It's not a good idea. You could add generated files, backup...

re: Lazy habits in linux terminal Nov 30 '17

I never get to write aliases for git * which I use every si...

re: Testing an API Against its Documentation Nov 27 '17

You've got to love the name of the tool...

re: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)? Nov 22 '17

Thanks!

re: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)? Nov 21 '17

Thanks! I do think that REPLs are great to learn syntax and...

re: How do you approach when you are learning new language ? Nov 21 '17

I look for a particular application. Most usually it's an e...

re: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)? Nov 21 '17

I went the other way round. In fact, I learned C with a boo...

re: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)? Nov 21 '17

What an interesting choice. Thanks for sharing! I would nev...

re: What would you like your first programming language to be (or have been)? Nov 20 '17

I kind of seem unable to remember bash syntax from one time...

re: Do developers still need UML? Nov 19 '17

The answer for every question of this type is always "Yes, ...

re: What do you Google EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and never just memorize? Nov 19 '17

R commands. ggplot2 options. Every single little thing in t...

re: Sorting people for fun and teaching computer science Nov 19 '17

It was obvious they related to you more than they did to me...

re: Don’t pay the for-loop tax Jun 3 '17

So true. Absolutely agree. The "for loop tax" is part of th...