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What is Perl 6?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it-all-started-with-a-camel dept.

chromatic writes "Perl.com has a new article entitled What is Perl 6?. It analyzes the changes to the language in light of the good and bad points of Perl 5 and provides new information about the current state of the project: Perl 6 exists, you can write code in it today, and it's more consistent and easier to use than Perl 5."

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  1. Re:My short experience with perl... by l3v1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So first you say it's crap because it can't be done. When you get examples that it can, you say it's crap because how it can be done. Now get lost.

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