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Perl6 new features
From:
cdumont
Date:
June 19, 2007 21:53
Subject:
Perl6 new features
Message ID:
4678B29B.20201@comquest.co.jp
Hi everyone,
I am working with perl 5.8 at the moment after developping web apps in PHP.
I know that perl doesn't only focus on web apps and my question might
seem irrelevant
but I've been searching the web in order to find the new features of
perl6 regarding
new functions, core module lists (not perl grammar itself) but couldn't
find any thing...
I would like to develop web apps with perl too but having to download
modules from CPAN
every time makes me feel these apps will never be able to evoluate in
different environments.
(environments you don't have control of)
I am a bit amazing to see that perl doesn't include a bunch a set theory
functions too.
Instead, need to reinvent the wheel making things easy possible and hard
things unconvenient.
I am not blaming perl but only hopes that perl6 will allow to make
things easy for the programmer.
as for the web, maintaining state thru server side cookies and DBI are
the very minimum I would recommend.
more hash and array functions a minimum too.
if there are such things in perl6, I'll be very happy to work with this
language !
I may not know enough about perl and my 'complain' might be absolutely
unfounded.
I know this is an open source language and that people are busy and if
the answer is "DIY !"
I'll pass my way^^;
Anyway, this is an outside view from 2007 hoping to help perl6 becoming
popular amongst people.