Re: Regular expressions, PCRE [was: Relation(s) between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart]

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Tom Browder (HE12025-04-21):
>     $ time raku -e ‘my $s = “a” x 25; my $r = “a?” x 25 ~ “a” x 25; if
> ($s ~= $r) { say “yes” } ‘

I almost asked if Raku uses pairs of Unicode quotes instead of the
symmetrical ASCII one; then I noticed the single quotes, and I know the
shell does not.

> Raku’s regular expression grammar is much better than Perl’s. Larry
> was very picky about that.

This is a good occasion to ask:

As a long-time Perl 5 programmer, I often wonder whether learning Raku
would be worth it. Does it take a lot of time or is it close enough to
be easy? What are the benefit? Will I find a trove of package already
implementing network protocols and standard algorithms, or be able to
run Perl 5 packages somehow? And so on.

Do you know the answer to these questions? Or a place where somebody
wrote them?

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George