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Perl 6: Apocalypse 6 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dodging-a-pack-of-camels dept.

data64 writes "The latest Apocalypse talks about subroutines. Looks like we finally get type signatures which are way more powerful than the rudimentary prototypes available with Perl5."

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  1. Don't forget Parrot by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The VM is showing 10x speed improvements in preliminary tests. Couple that in with Moore's law and Perl (or any languages that compiles to the Parrot VM) becomes a very attractive language for more types of problems.