The Rakudo toolchain is interesting, even if Perl 6 isn't your cup of tea
The Rakudo toolchain is interesting, even if Perl 6 isn't your cup of tea
By Nicholas Clark from London.pm
Lightning talk
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: tea
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Perl 1 to Perl 5 shared the same codebase, that Chaim Frenkel lovingly references with his clarfication that "Perl's grammar can not be reduced to BNF. The work of parsing Perl is distributed between yacc, the lexer, smoke and mirrors."
In contrast, Rakudo is boring, because it's parsed by (a subset of) Perl 6.
However, there are three things that make Rakudo's toolchain a lot more interesting that most of the other self-hosting language implementations.
This talk will explain why.
Attended by: Philipp Gortan (mephinet), David Schmidt (davewood),
