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The Perl 6 Advent Calendar

Posted by timothy on from the possibly-recognizable-tune dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Larry Wall wasn't joking when he said that Perl 6 would be ready by Christmas. Perhaps not this Christmas, but that hasn't stopped a group of people (including head Rakudo developers Patrick Michaud and Jonathan Worthington) from putting together an Advent Calendar, featuring one cool Perl 6 feature every day until Christmas. Topics currently covered include how to get and build Rakudo (the most actively developed and progressed implementation of Perl 6) and the new Metaoperators. For those wondering when Perl 6 will be finished: Rakudo will be having its official 'production release' (dubbed Rakudo Star) April 2010."

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  1. Re:This has taken too long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what? PERL is just about dead, other than noddy shell like programming by admins thinking they real developers. The world moved on to new scripting languages that are far cleaner, and more maintainable a decade ago. PERL is done, it served its purpose and is now near obsolete. If you're waiting for v6 as something significant, you should probably hang up the keyboard, you're in old fart COBOL mode hanging on to the past.

  2. Re:Coming of the (perl) Messiah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    One of Larry Wall's goals was to translate the bible to an African language. Larry Wall is a known evengelical Christian zealot with a hard-on for proselytizing.

    Could you imagine giving Christianity, a terrible tool used to justify bestial acts, to the already-savage African niggers? It'd be like giving a nuke to Al-Qaeda.

    And perl sucks, too. Go Python!