Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-21 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Thanks to you all for the info. I am looking forward to the useable version as well as a stable perl6 Xmas present soon. :-) can't wait until this is fully up and running I think it is a game changer! :-) Sent from my iPhone Wendell Hatcher wendell_hatc...@comcast.net 303-520-7554 Blogsite: h

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-21 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Matthew Wilson wrote: As written in pmichaud's journal entries, "stability" is explicitly *not* (and never was) one of the goals of the April 2010 release of Rakudo. So to answer the original question, if you want something somewhat useable, then Rakudo Star is it. If y

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-20 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Thanks Matt, I really like perl 6 and moose for that matter. :-) I feel that these implementations of truly take it into the application programmming arena. And, am hoping perl is thought of when building larger enterprise applications in the future once there is a true product

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-20 Thread Wendell Hatcher
I actsully read the fact sheets in the past and want to confirm that a stable production qaulity release of perl6 is coming out this April or at the berry least the summer? Sent from my iPhone Wendell Hatcher wendell_hatc...@comcast.net 303-520-7554 Blogsite: http://thoughtsofaperlprogrammer.

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-20 Thread Richard Hainsworth
I too re-read PM's journal. Note his explicit desire to avoid 'stability' as a goal at this stage for rakudo because of its imprecision. We often use words that have different shades of meanings for different people/situations, eg., what is a 'short' time? Consider how a child might answer, as

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-19 Thread Matthew Wilson
As written in pmichaud's journal entries, "stability" is explicitly *not* (and never was) one of the goals of the April 2010 release of Rakudo. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Steve Pitchford wrote: > I think this question was largly addressed in the first link? > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:59

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Pitchford
I think this question was largly addressed in the first link? On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Wendell Hatcher < wendell_hatc...@comcast.net> wrote: > I actsully read the fact sheets in the past and want to confirm that a > stable production qaulity release of perl6 is coming out this April or a

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Pitchford
Aha - A FAQ - for the answer, read here: http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411 and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakudo_Perl Cheers, Steve On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Wendell Hatcher < wendell_hatc...@comcast.net> wrote: > Is there ever going to be a perl6 production version

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-19 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Is there ever going to be a perl6 production version coming out soon? Sent from my iPhone Wendell Hatcher wendell_hatc...@comcast.net 303-520-7554 Blogsite: http://thoughtsofaperlprogrammer.vox.com/ On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Steve Pitchford wrote: Have a read of this: http://www.parro

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Pitchford
Have a read of this: http://www.parrot.org/ The parrot project is to build a virtual machine for dynamic languages, like perl 6. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Dell wrote: > Has anyone thought about designing or is the Rakudo compiler similar to the > JVM on an enterprise level? What I mean

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-17 Thread Dell
Has anyone thought about designing or is the Rakudo compiler similar to the JVM on an enterprise level? What I mean is would I be able to write applications that can process huge amounts of data like files,claims or account transactions on Rakudo in the future? I think this would be a huge push

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-16 Thread Matthew Walton
Rakudo in its normal operation will compile the program, then run it immediately. You can, however, get it to save the compiled code for later use i fyou wish. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:09 PM, dell wrote: > Hello, > >            I had just began looking at the perl6 raduko compiler and have a > q

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-16 Thread Bruce Gray
On Mar 14, 2010, at 11:09 AM, dell wrote: Is perl6 actually compiled then ran similar to java or is the script ran and then compiled at run time? It supports either, but defaults to single-step compile-run (like Perl 5). I think that a transparent cache is envisioned for the future, so th