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In previous three episodes I explored regular expression APIs of Ruby, Crystal, and Python, so let's finish this by doing the same exercise in Raku. The problem is the same - there's multiple date formats, and we want to extract information from whic...
Sidef is a prototype programming language, describing itself as inspired by Ruby, Raku, and Julia. Installation on OSX It's not that easy to run Sidef. It runs on Perl 5 platform and you can install it through CPAN, but you'll run into serious proble...
Lingua Romana Perligata is basically Perl in Latin. You think Perl has too much punctuation? It's all gone. Instead you'll need to deal with word endings. To enjoy Lingua Romana Perligata you need to install it with cpan Lingua::Romana::Perligata and...
I covered Raku and Raku regular expressions before, now it's time to complete this with an episode about Raku grammars. Processing text is one of the most common tasks in programming, so most languages since Perl come with some kind of regular expres...
Perl is a highly influential "kitchen sink" language. Languages like that see an idea that might potentially be useful or just cool, and just add it to the language because why not. Other languages with similar design philosophy (or one might say lac...
What gets to be included in languages and what gets pushed into some third party library is a result of history more than reason. For example pretty much every language comes with every possible trigonometric function included and preloaded, so you c...