Saving some links from Perl 6 Weekly
Haven’t done anything interesting related to Raku for years, but I still subscribe to the Perl 6 Weekly blog. Several links caught my eye this week.
- Jeff Goff started a fresh series on implementing Template Toolkit in Perl 6.
- Madeleine Goebel is making great progress on a GSOC project making
perl6produce executable binaries - Andrew Shitov wrote a pleasant baby steps sort of intro on using NativeCall for accessing C libraries from Perl 6.
- Some sort of Chef/Ansible style task runner, called Sparrow6
Anyways, back to work and Python, which is also fun!
Activity Log
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 09:26
I am leaning towards the thought that we have more meetings here than are strictly necessary.
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 14:45
laughs at people getting hung up on how “literally” also means “figuratively” now
Language rules are descriptive, not prescriptive. Silly pedant.
hears someone call their API a “DSL”
clenches jaw
In this context, “Domain Specific Language” – small languages for specific tasks, like Makefile syntax.
Many folks use DSL to describe configuration files that use an existing programming language with convenient functions.
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 16:35
“less/fewer” has a long and murky history, with “less” for quantity dating back to 888.
Old pic. I need to dig my Dictionary of English Usage out of the moving boxes.
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 18:26
Booted into Windows. Let’s see what kind of damage I can do to myself.
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 20:20
Putting her desk together. Didn’t quite have all the screws needed.
I fixed it though.
“Just don’t ask any questions — and don’t lean too hard on the keyboard tray.”
hackers.town: 2019-07-23 Tue 23:28
Probably didn’t need to start that next big update so late.
Twitter: 2019-07-23 Tue 23:30
that would make a great tattoo
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1153915011661742082