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Published inSep 2017
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ISBN-139781787282049
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Andrew Shitov
Andrew Shitov
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Andrew Shitov

Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
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In this chapter, we were talking about reactive programming in Perl 6. This paradigm has support in the language core, so no external modules are needed to start programming. The supply is the main character in this chapter—we covered two different types of them, on demand and live supplies. We had many examples of attaching taps to supplies and saw how the data flow is organized and how it can be filtered.

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This was the last chapter of the book. In 15 chapters, we went from the very basics of Perl 6 through an object-oriented approach and concurrent programming to higher order features such as functional and reactive programming. Perl 6 naturally embeds all of that. There is no doubt that more than 15 years of development added value to the quality and maturity of the language in general.

During the process of writing this book, which took about half a year...

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Published in: Sep 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787282049

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Andrew Shitov

Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
Read more about Andrew Shitov