October 2019 Archives

Cor - Background core Perl OO

So far, the work on Cor is going well. Here's the timeline.

Cor - A proposal for core Perl OO

I've been working with Sawyer X and Stevan Little to try to bring OO into the Perl core. Most of this work is based on Stevan's work, with me trying to add a final "polish" layer to make it clean and still feel like Perl.

It's being called "Cor" to distinguish it from current OO systems.

This is an example:

You can read the full description of Cor here.

Feel free to comment on the proposal here or on the gist.

Data Science and Perl

Our company goes into many other companies and helps them build new Perl systems or fix old ones. Needless to say, we see how many companies work and a typical example is one of our clients I'll call "AlphaCorp." They use lots and lots of Perl. Their primary web site is almost entirely Perl. So when I went in to help them with their A/B testing (amongst other things), I was surprised that they also used a lot of Python. It turns out they had a specific need that Python fills and Perl does not: data science.

Because they hired so many Python developers to work in their data science area, they had more and more Python creeping into non-data science areas. Their Python devs didn't do much Perl and vice versa. Thus, while AlphaCorp said they'd rather not split themselves over multiple programming languages, they really had no choice. And that's a problem for Perl's future.

Larry has approved renaming Perl 6 to raku

Via this comment, Larry has said:

I am in favor of this change, because it reflects an ancient wisdom:

"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."

Unsurprisingly, it's a Biblical quote.

But what does this mean?

About Ovid

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