hermidalc

• About: I'm a bioinformatician, software developer, avid Perl programmer and supporter and I'm here to blog about the language that is Perl!

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• Commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update
  BTW when I read "6lang" I clearly read it every time as "six-lang" not "slang". I doubt any native English speakers will read it as the latter....
• Commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update
  I think 6lang is an absolutely wonderful idea. It freshly brands this completely new language and specification and, as others have mentioned, this naming scheme is used elsewhere, such as with Golang. I don't like the brand name Perl 6....
• Commented on Perl 5.14.0 benchmarks and RPMS
  Hi, Question about your build for Perl 5.12.3, you build this Perl with internal debugging via -DDEBUGGING which will take a big performance hit but the others don't seem to be built with that....
• Commented on Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
  Better and much easier Perl C/C++ interoperability and integration. CTypes for Perl (as chromatic mentioned) and things like a Boost.Perl C++ integration library like there is for Python OO standard in core Ability to pre-compile Perl ie. .pl to...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  For those of you who are interested in using Gnuplot from within Perl, it looks to me that you have three libraries with different capabilities to choose from: Graphics::GnuplotIFChart::GnuplotChart::Graph...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  I was told on the PDL mailing list recently that work is proceeding to implement standard cross-platform graphics (2D and 3D). Gnuplot has also been mentioned to the PDL developers, Gnuplot would be fairly straightforward to integrate and as...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  Here are some interesting links: Numerical Programming Performance Comparison in Perl and Python http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~erikd/pdf/hlarray.pdf PDL, R, Octave Reviews http://www.linuxgoodies.com/review_pdl.html http://www.linuxgoodies.com/review_R.html http://www.linuxgoodies.com/review_octave.html PDL vs MATLAB http://use.perl.org/~david+m/journal/39838 PDL for MATLAB Users http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=PDL_for_Matlab_users Neat Performance Comparison of PDL, MATLAB, Octave Using Fractals as...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  For people interested in using PDL here is some information, homepage http://pdl.perl.org/. For a quick full installation using just packages (with Fedora as example): yum install libX11-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel libXext-devel freeglut-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libICE-devel plplot-devel hdf-devel proj-devel proj-nad compat-gcc-34-g77 compat-libf2c netpdm-progs...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  If you have MATLAB users that know and want to stick with MATLAB but don't have a license then maybe they should consider GNU Octave as the languages and functionality are quite similar. As for plotting were you able to...
• Commented on Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing
  Hi minty, thank you for your comments... i don't understand would you like me to write out at least point 1. you mentioned?...
• Posted Putting Perl Back on Top in the Fields of Scientific and Financial Computing to lhermida

  As a bioinformatician and software developer of many years and avid Perl programmer and supporter, one thing I've noticed over the past few years is that Perl has been needlessly losing ground to Python in the major areas of scientific and financial computing, areas where it used to be *the*…

Comment Threads

• Mark commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  6slang ("slang") works on many levels. One is that it would feel hip for the young folks who want to project grit and edge, likely contributing to broader adoption.

• whirlyperly commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Perl 6 started the design process in 2000, which is before many of these people were even born. So instead of trying to win the race claiming to be the hare, be proud of being the tortoise ;-)

• elohmrow commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  I read '6lang' as 'six-lang', which decomposes nicely to 'slang' in my ears. Of course, 'Slang' proper is already taken as the name of a programming language (as is 'S-Lang').

  In the end, I mostly agree with https://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2017/10/6lang-naming-proposal-is-good.html.

• Renormalist commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Show Perl 6 code to a non-Perl programmer and let him/her decide. He/She will definitely answer "it's Perl".

• JJ Merelo commented on 6lang: The Naming Discussion Update

  Could be x-lang (eks-lang). Not so bad, not taken as far as I know.