> raku is now my tool of choice when
* manipulexity is important

I had to look it up
Larry Wall: Manipulexity and Whipuptitude - Fortune
If you were a Unix programmer you either programmed in C or shell. And there 
really wasn't much in between. There were these little languages that we used 
on top of shell, but that was the big divide. The big revelation that hatched 
Perl, as it were, was that this opened up into a two-dimensional space. And C 
was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of 
complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call 
whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

So Perl was hatched. As a small egg. That was Perl 1. And it was designed from 
the very beginning to evolve. The fact that we put sigils in front of the 
variables meant that the namespaces were protected from new keywords. And that 
was intentional, so we could evolve the language fairly rapidly without 
impacting.

And it evolved… And it evolved… And finally we got to Perl 5. And… So… Perhaps 
the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to 
that.
https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=larry-wall-big-divide
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From: Marc Chantreux <m...@unistra.fr>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2021 7:43 AM
To: Wesley Peng <wesleyp...@aol.com>
Cc: perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org>
Subject: shell to raku

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Le Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 01:20:45PM +0000, Wesley Peng a écrit :
> Replacing Bash scripts with Raku? That’s an interesting thing

Well ... replacing bash is always a good thing but raku is not
always the rhs of the substitution (could be dash/mksh/rc,
make/mk, C, ...).

raku is now my tool of choice when

* manipulexity is important
* performance is not

The way i see the talk is:

* show how to do simple things ($PATH vs $RAKULIB, ...)
* show similarities (if you're confortable with feature X,
  then raku's Y will makes you happy)
* show some pro and cons (Shell vs Raku)

> Can Linux be shipped with Raku by default?

    apt install rakudo

Is possible from the stable debian but i don't think it's a good idea
to have it as part of the default install (in a sense that there should
be nothing bigger than dash/busybox/toybox in the default install).
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