Shortly before take off, Rudolph (who wanted to get his facts 100% right) asked his friend ChattyGPT “what are the crucial factors for a successful Sleigh ride?” Certainly, said Chatty! Here are three calculations for Santa: How could Rudi check his numbers in time? Calculator using RAku Grammars (CRAG) Then he remembered that Raku, hisContinue reading “Day 20 – Craggy Christmas Chronicles”
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Day 15 – An Object Lesson for the Elven
This post is a continuation of Day 5 – The Elves go back to Grammar School, you may recall that our elfin friends had worked out how to parse all the addresses from the many, many children who had emailed in their wish lists. Now, as they sing along to “Christmas is Coming”, they realiseContinue reading “Day 15 – An Object Lesson for the Elven”
Day 5 – The Elves go back to Grammar School
It was Christmas Day in the workhouse the snow was raining fast a barefooted man with clogs on came slowly running past anon ‘Twas the month before Christmas when a barefooted Elf with clogs on realised that they needed to load around 1_000_000_000 addresses into Santa’s Google maps importer so that he could optimise hisContinue reading “Day 5 – The Elves go back to Grammar School”
Day 16: Santa CL::AWS (part 2)
… in Part 1 of this winter drama, we left Mrs CL::AWS in a pickle. The story so far: the elves needed to rebuild their eChristmas website on AWS EC2 – Mrs CL::AWS had quickly whipped up a minimal raku script to use the AWS CLI with a basic procedural coding approach and shell executionContinue reading “Day 16: Santa CL::AWS (part 2)”
Day 11: Santa CL::AWS
Santa’s elves are in charge of updating the e-Christmas site every year and, since that site uses WordPress, it needs a full rebuild each time to make sure that it is ready for all the kids to Post their Christmas lists without drooping under the weight of traffic. This winter, they thought it would beContinue reading “Day 11: Santa CL::AWS”
Day 18 – Santa and the Magic Tree (M-Tree)
It was Christmas Eve in the Workhouse and Santa was getting worried about how the weight of all those presents would reduce the height of his sled’s flighpath. Would he be able to clear the height of the tallest Christmas trees on his worldwide journey? He asked one of his helpers to whip up aContinue reading “Day 18 – Santa and the Magic Tree (M-Tree)”
Day 15: Rudolph on Raku
Finding a way home to the North pole with Physics::Navigation So, Rudolph has been worried about getting Santa and the other reindeer back home to the North Pole after an exhausting flight to visit all the (well-behaved) Children on the Globe. He has heard a rumour that the North Pole keeps moving due to theContinue reading “Day 15: Rudolph on Raku”
RFC 54, by Damian Conway: Operators: Polymorphic comparisons
This RFC was originally proposed on August 7th 2020 and frozen in six weeks. It described a frustration with comparison operations in Perl. The expression: “cat” == “dog” #True Perl (and now Raku) has excellent support for generic programming because of dynamic typing, generic data types and interface polymorphism. Just about the only place whereContinue reading “RFC 54, by Damian Conway: Operators: Polymorphic comparisons”
Raku Advent Calendar 