Every so often I notice that my iTunes library has a lot of duplicate items and I need to get rid of things. It’s mostly a task for finding an […]
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Three ways to pretty print Perl 6
I’ve had my head down working on the “Grammars” chapter, and along the way I’ve been using dd to look at things. It’s better than nothing, but it’s also very […]
Read moreSearch Perl 6 repos with Marchex/github-api-tools
Chris Nandor has been bugging me to use the Github tools he helped to develop for Marchex, so when I posted about Hound he showed me another way to search […]
Read moreSearch the Perl 6 repos with Etsy’s Hound
Hound photo by Jen on Flickr I’m working on Learning Perl 6 and I spend a lot of my time going between repos to suss out various things. Etsy’s Hound […]
Read moreTranslating the perlfaq to Perl 6
I started a GitHub project to translate the Perl 5 perlfaq to Perl 6. For years I maintained those documents so they are a bit special to me. Sadly, the […]
Read moreExperiment in the Perl 6 REPL
Perl 6 has a REPL. That’s a tiny, language-specific shell that Reads a line, Evaluates it, Prints the result, and Loops to do it again. It can remember the previous […]
Read moreDon’t install over your existing Perl 6
When you want to install a new Perl 6 (or any of its backend stuff), don’t install over what you already have working. The language and the tools aren’t stable […]
Read morePerl 6 modulinos are even easier
Perl 6 has this wonderful thing called MAIN which is a built-in modulino thingy. In my excellent number hobby (which I started writing about in Mastering Perl even after I […]
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