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I've never programmed in Perl, but a couple years ago I read a Raku book and was delighted with the language. At the time, I was interested in learning a new scripting language. Raku and Tcl were at stake. I built a small script to compare the run speed and Raku was about 40 times slower than Tcl for my use case, if my memory is not betraying me. So, I went for Tcl that I also like very much.
Still, there's some opportunity for Perl, as I may need it in the short future.
From the features of Raku that are mentioned in the home page, namely: 1. Object-oriented programming including generics, roles and multiple dispatch 2. Functional programming primitives, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators) 3. Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony including multi-core support 4. Definable grammars for pattern matching and generalized string processing 5. Optional and gradual typing
what are the ones that will be available for Perl7, which I've already read that will be similar to the last Perl5 with saner defaults?
TCL is also very stable between releases, it has industrial strength and threading support.
But it lacks advocacy. It could get one tenth of what Lisp gets...
Each has to decide what path to walk on life. Consequences will accrue shortly for the scientism believers.
This dictatorship is about international socialism. Either people awake or we get like the frog in boiling water.
For four years, despite all the lies, the attacks on Trump's dignity, the massive and ferocious media brain wash, Trump got eight millions more votes. Trump got between 15 to 30 thousand people at each rally during the campaign, Biden could not even join 30. Let's see if the people seeking truth can prove what really happened.
Although I've not yet tried it myself, there's AndroWish (https://www.androwish.org/home/home). Deploy your TCL/Tk code on Android with minimal changes.
So many problems for the desktop, that come almost day in day out that I'm considering trying Haiku OS for the desktop. Just need something that works.
RPi's could be the killer "app" for Haiku.
Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script.
I've been using for some backups and it has worked fine. And for backups, I prefer to use cpio than tar.
I didn't finish the course as I moved to Elixir, although I liked Clojure very much. Elixir is also functional, much better for newcomers, lots of support, people, documentation, examples, books, courses, growing very fast... And one doesn't need to wait several seconds to start the virtual machine.
Did anyone try the unicage solution?