What's That Racket?

For my third language of the month, I figured I would cover a language of venerable heritage: Lisp. Part of Lisp's fame centers around the supposed enlightenment one achieves when one finally "gets" Lisp.

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Posted on 2016-04-06

Binding to C++ With NativeCall

A few months back, I was working on Xapian bindings for Perl 6. I got enough of the binding done for me to use it for what I wanted (using Xapian's stemmers and stoppers), but not enough for me to feel comfortable publishing it on modules.perl6.org. However, what I am comfortable publishing is what I learned about binding a C++ library to Perl 6 using NativeCall!

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Posted on 2016-03-28

A Strongly Typed Typing Tutor

My project for the February language of the month was really exciting to work on, because it incorporates two of my favorite things: programming, and learning (natural) languages.

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Posted on 2016-03-07

Climbing the Elm Tree

The selection of the second language of the month was mired in confusion; there was one language I had had in mind, and I spent the week after the previous blog post learning more about it. However, I then learned a new release was in the pipeline for April, so it seemed natural to delay my adventures with that language for two months.

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Posted on 2016-03-06

Finding the most common n-grams in Russian using Perl 6 and HabraHabr

I've been teaching myself Russian for some time; in fact, I would probably be a lot better at it if I spent time actually learning Russian instead of thinking of ways of hacking my language learning process...which is exactly what we'll be doing here.

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Posted on 2016-03-05