Comment by 0x445442
3 years ago
Yeah I wish Raku would pick up some steam. It’s the only newish language I’ve looked at that’s made me say wow and it cleans up some of the thorny Perl5 sigil issues.
3 years ago
Yeah I wish Raku would pick up some steam. It’s the only newish language I’ve looked at that’s made me say wow and it cleans up some of the thorny Perl5 sigil issues.
I always liked the sigils :-)
When I was first learning to program and picked up Perl 5 (I was interested in Web programming, so... that was the thing to learn at the time) and then later read some books (yes, kids, we used to read books) on Java and C++, I wondered how the hell anyone could make sense of them. And hacking up early Javascript snippets (you know, for image rollovers, the only thing anyone used it for for the first few years) was so painful. It's just words! There's nothing to indicate what anything is! The examples in the books were so hard to read.
The answer, of course, was "they use syntax highlighting", but I'd not made that discovery yet.
Oh Sigils aren’t bad. It’s just they’re more consistent in Raku, particularly with regard to arrays and hashes.