Sep 14, 2022 · 4 min read · 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...
Join discussionJan 27, 2022 · 11 min read · 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...
Join discussionJan 5, 2022 · 12 min read · 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...
Join discussionDec 16, 2021 · 12 min read · Raku, which started its life as Perl 6, was meant as successor to Perl language. The main problem with that is that Perl 6 was officially announced in 2000, and only properly appeared in 2015, and in that time frame Perl lost most of its popularity, ...
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