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Perl 6 Synopsis 5

Posted by timothy on from the making-the-impossible-accessable dept.

XaXXon writes: "perl.com has Synopsis 5 for Perl 6 up. It's a brief overview of all the changes made in Larry Wall's Apocalypse 5. Lots of stuff about the new regex syntax. I must admit, however, that I'm getting tired of reading about perl 6 -- I want to start using it." We posted Larry Wall's 5th Apocalypse in May.

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  1. So why don't you? by JoshuaDFranklin · · Score: 3, Informative
    I must admit, however, that I'm getting tired of reading about perl 6 -- I want to start using it.

    Well, go right ahead. From the Parrot VM, the Perl6 engine, page:

    Can I use Parrot today?

    Well, almost. :^) Parrot is in the early phases of its implementation. The primary way to use Parrot is to write Parrot assembly code, described in PDD6.

    Use Perl6--Write some Parrot assembly, and help out!
  2. Re:Rename it, it isn't Perl anymore by m_ilya · · Score: 2, Informative
    It is still Perl. It is just better Perl :)

    If in doubt go and read article ...And Now for Something Completely Similar by Damian Conway.

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    Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

  3. I' also getting tired of reading about Perl6 by porky_pig_jr · · Score: 2, Informative

    and I'm about to drop it altogether - both 5 and 6. Franky, coding Perl can be fun, but maintaining and debugging the code written by somebody else - isn't. THis is the implication of having the language with 'the same thing can be done in a 1000 different ways' and the language whose design mostly depends on Larry's whims - and remember that Larry is a linguist by education, and apparently he has somewhat limited understanding of all the issues concerning the 'production quality' language. So - I'll be taking a closer look to apparently minimalistic and restricted Python. Cheers.