Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions

An anonymous reader writes "Perl 6 is finally coming within reach. This article gives you a tour of the grammars and regular expressions of the Perl 6 language, comparing them with the currently available Parse::RecDescent module for Perl 5. Find out what will be new with Perl 6 regular expressions and how to make use of the new, powerful incarnation of the Perl scripting language."

Perl goodness

[Zorilla]

HXGF*&#$()#P*&ULJKDFHV)(&*#$utrhk:jlhdsf(p*&#$OJDF >KLJDFP)(*$#&pyu:

Crap, I think I just accidentally programmed a web browser in Perl

hrm...

[Anonymous Coward]

"...zztop-wants-a-perl-necklace dept."

i do not think that means what you think it means.

Re:Better asked at slashcode.com perhaps, but

[Zorilla]

About the same time they get around to supporting XHTML and CSS.

Re:Grammar

[Anonymous Coward]

Perl is made great by its ability to provoke raging flame wars over ephemeral points:

It's "perl", you strongly-typed, weak-minded illiterate; not "PERL". Everyone knows that as of Sep. 17, 1999, the perl community decided arbitrarily (and overnight) that it isn't an acronym anymore.

Re:Perl goodness

[b12arr0]

Uh, that's not a web browser, it's clearly a web server.

Re:Ok, start the flame wars under this post

[Zorilla]

Ok, folks; choose your topic:

a) Is it called GNU/Linux or Linux?
b) Emacs vs Vi
c) "Ok" goes on the left, "Cancel" goes on the right.
d) Security is based on market share - NO! Apache is more secure despite bla bla bla!
e) 45 RPM LPs sound better than reel-to-reel!

Re:Grammar

[stratjakt]

Acronymn or not, are you trying to say I can't yell it?

PERL! PERL! PERL! ATTICA! ATTICA!

Re:Perl goodness

[Zorilla]

It curls fries, too, you know.

aw hell

[The Unabageler]

I'm going to have to rewrite my sig.

Re:Ok, start the flame wars under this post

[kclittle]

Face it! Ancient vac-tubes from old Russian radar units (putting out, oh, 15 watts) and getting their signal from running a sharp-pointed stick 'round a piece of congealed petroleum is the best audio technology in the world!

-- Mr. Luddite

Re:Please!

[DAldredge]

No. Much like I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow I have faith in my fellow /. posters to take this discussion off target.

Re:Runs great under Gentoo

[G27 Radio]

We both forgot to mention Macs though. Suprising, since there are literally thousands of people using them these days :)

Re:hrm...

[bluelip]

I disagree. Unlike the unsuspecting females I've offered them to recently, I think they knew exactly what it means. :)

Pet Project

[orlyonok]

I'm studing seriously the posibility of tackling a whorty coding proyect, the rewriting of the entire LINUX kernel on a languaje very much but not unlike C and was considering doing it in C-INTERCAL but after seing things like this http://ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable .html [ozonehouse.com] , I changed my mind and will use PERL 6 instead.

Re:Perl6 -- an interesting curiosity

[TimToady]

Lawn chairs are fine, but in actual fact, kitchen sinks are more useful.

I can't remember all that!

[warrax_666]

... so when I need a webserver, I just

$ cat /dev/urandom | perl

It usually works in 3 tries or less.

Re:so many for so long

[Anonymous Coward]

And once you get used to RUBY, you'll never go BACK to PERL. You'll ALSO stop spelling random words that aren't acronyms all in caps, like Perl, Ruby, Java and Unix.