{"id":2470,"date":"2010-05-25T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:39:58","slug":"perl-and-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/perl-and-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Perl and Its Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillygmt.co.uk\/2010\/05\/damian-conway-on-perl-and-its-future.html\">Damian Conway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.oreillygmt.co.uk\/2010\/05\/damian-conway-on-perl-and-its-future.html\"><p>As for Perl 6, I think it&rsquo;s impossible to accurately estimate just how valuable a built-in grammar mechanism is until you actually have one. It&rsquo;s true that XML and YAML\/JSON cover a lot of data representation needs, but there is a vast amount of data that isn&rsquo;t available in those formats and will never be unless it&rsquo;s parsed and converted. And a grammar is unquestionably the best way to do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Conway: As for Perl 6, I think it&rsquo;s impossible to accurately estimate just how valuable a built-in grammar mechanism is until you actually have one. It&rsquo;s true that XML and YAML\/JSON cover a lot of data representation needs, but there is a vast amount of data that isn&rsquo;t available in those formats and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}