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First Perl 6 Book is Out

Posted by michael on from the first-not-always-best dept.

prostoalex writes "O'Reilly Publishing presented Perl 6 Essentials, the first book to be dedicated to Perl 6, at the beginning of this month. Looking at the table of contents, it hardly looks like a valid replacement for Llama or Camel books. Chapter 1 is available online. The whole book is available to Safari subscribers." I'm sure we'll review it sooner or later.

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  1. Perl..... by Smartcowboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...was used by Taliban in their anti-aircraft missile defense system. (click here!)

  2. Re:I'm just wondering... by dubStylee · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are disgusting little idiots. Your stupid remarks about celebreties are just plain ugly. When you bring this to the realm of people in our own community you move to the level of maggots.

    Go ahead and mod me down for flaming, I'll gladly take the hit.

  3. I HOPE SOMEONE SLAPS YOU IN THE NUTS, DIPSHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Python is infintely better than Perl and Ruby precisely because of its use of indentation. Those who dislike it tend to be dumbfucks like yourself who wouldn't recognize a great, sexy programming language if it came up and sat on your face.

  4. Eh? by Daleks · · Score: 0, Troll

    The first Perl 6 book was out in 2000.

  5. Perl vs. PHP by theolein · · Score: 0, Troll

    It seems that PHP is moving in the same general direction in that it is now usable as a commandline tool and is adding many unneeded features, but at least the syntax is cleaner.

  6. You raise an interesting point here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are a lot of committed intelligent women that are part of Perl, but yet are sadly lacking in other Open Source areas.

    Do you think Perl is a more feminine language that other software? I mean, you've got women involved with Perl, but virtually none as a serious part of JCP. Does that make Java more manly than Perl? And is that a bad thing?

    I dunno.

    But your post makes me view Perl in a whole different light, not to mention an idea for a playboy pictoral...