Re^3: Next Language to Learn

[rovf]

IMHO its not even a hype like Ruby, it's mostly only "chic".

It *is* chic. I didn't suggest it because of this though, neither for its general usefulness (I don't want to open this box of worms), but because the OP expressed explicitly:

.... so that I can improve my overall programming language skill set

I could equally well have proposed Prolog, BCPL or Scheme....

[LanX]

Sorry I didn't intend to criticize you, it's only my personal impression after a long indoctrination...

Me, I'm rather interested to realize different paradigms in Perl, maybe by extending the language.

(even if it provokes the resistance of local clerics... ;)

[rovf]

Sorry I didn't intend to criticize you

I didn't interpret it that way ;-)

I'm rather interested to realize different paradigms in Perl, maybe by extending the language.

For instance it would be interesting to see, how easy/clumsy it is to retrofit lazy evaluation into Perl.

With enough pertinacity, every language can be made to look like LISP :-D

[LanX]

> For instance it would be interesting to see, how easy/clumsy it is to retrofit lazy evaluation into Perl.

E.g.you can tie an iterator to a variable.

I'm not fluent in Haskell, so gimme an example and I'll see what's possible.

> With enough pertinacity, every language can be made to look like LISP :-D

Well, unfortunately it's not trivial to realize LISPish macros in Perl 5, otherwise most language extensions I can think of would be easily possible.

Compare Re^2: Dumping variables but DRY and simple for a use case for a macro.