Ramblings on the art and craft, trials and tribulations of software programming.
So a couple of days ago I was taken with the fact that you could make the Raku programming language appear to do I/O somewhat like C++: Or you can even go full C++ if that takes you: use isms; sub infix:«<<»( IO::Handle $h , Cool $v ) { $h .print: $v ; $h }; sub term:<cout> { $*OUT }; sub term:<endl> { "\n" }; cout << "Whatever" << endl; #rakulang — Jonathan Stowe (@gellyfish) June 17, 2022 Now it…
A few weeks ago I had a moment of hubris on Twitter It would be nice to see something like the first one done in #rakulang - totally doable but right now I've got quite a deep TODO on that front. https://t.co/0qc24om02j — Jonathan Stowe (@gellyfish) January 11, 2022 I was particularly interested in the idea of making a thermostat with a Raspberry Pi but using Raku instead of Python. Being somewhat…
My friend Dave Cross doesn't like to see bad Perl code in the wild, and often when he finds it he will write about it,usually presenting a rewritten version that conforms to the generally accepted standards for writing Perl 5 code in the 21st century. Anyway yesterday I saw this magazine in a supermarket: It has three good articles by Dave in it, and, as Dave pointed out on Facebook, the article…