Literate Programming with Raku Different programming language communities have differing cultures. Some are more pragmatic, others more idealistic. Some place great emphasis on having code be thoroughly readable and understandable for anyone who joins an existing project, and some prefer writing out clear and in-depth documentation. Raku, inheriting one of the best parts of Perl,Continue reading “Day 3: Literate Programming with Raku”
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Day 13 – A Little R&R
A Little R&R Introduction Raku is a really nice language. Versatile, expressive, fast, dwimmy. The only problem I sometimes have with it is that it can be a little slow. Fortunately that can easily be solved by the NativeCall interface, which makes it easy to call C code in your Raku program. Now, as niceContinue reading “Day 13 – A Little R&R”
Day 3 – Stack Frame Reduction
Stack Frame Reduction What is a Stack Frame? For those not familiar with the stack, it is a bit of memory for your program to use. It is fast but limited. Whenever you call a procedure (function, method,… naming is a complicated thing) your program gets a bit of storage on the stack, which weContinue reading “Day 3 – Stack Frame Reduction”