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• 2008-08-31 Google Summer of Code Mentor Recap by Moritz Lenz
• 2008-08-27 Why you don't need the Y combinator in Perl 6 by Moritz Lenz
• 2008-08-25 Recent rakudo news by Patrick R. Michaud
• 2008-08-21 Recent Perl 6 Developments August 2008 by Moritz Lenz
• 2008-08-21 Blog series: Perl 6 feature show off and Tutorial by Moritz Lenz
• 2008-08-21 The Mind of Damian Conway: Science, Computer Science, the Future of Perl 6, and Advice for Today's Aspiring Programmers by Kathryn Barrett (interview with transcript and flash video)
• 2008-08-14 November (A Perl 6 Wiki) by Carl Mäsak and Johan Viklund (YAPC Europe 2008, PDF)
• 2008-08-09 Lots of Rakudo fixes/enhancements by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-08-07 APL (Programming some APL operators in Perl 6) by John M. Dlugosz
• 2008-08-05 Fixing bugs, and looking at where we're at by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-08-05 Multiple Dispatch Design Work by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-31 Pugs.hs is back by Audrey Tang (Pugs was the first Perl 6 compiler, written in Haskell.)
• 2008-07-30 v6.pm is back by fglock ("v6" is a CPAN module that implements a Perl 6 compiler that runs in Perl 5.)
• 2008-07-27 Building a Huffman Tree With Rakudo by Moritz Lenz
• 2008-07-26 Class attributes and many fixes by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-23 Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot (OSCON 2008) by Patrick R. Michaud and Jerry Gay
• 2008-07-22 Larry Wall at OSCON: Open Source as a Parenting Experience James Turner interviews Larry Wall (video)
• 2008-07-19 Anonymous classes and meta-class stuff by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-14 What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like? Thread on Perlmonks
• 2008-07-10 Enums and the 'but' operator by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-08 Getting Involved with Perl 6 - an Update by Moritz Lenz (About how you can get involved.)
• 2008-07-08 Signature Objects by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-03 Lexical Fixes by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-07-01 Where's the goal line? by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-07-01 Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot) progress report by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-06-27 Rakudo Perl now passing over 1000 spectests! by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-06-25 'make perl6' on OS X by Curtis Poe
• 2008-06-24 Announcing the Parrot Foundation by Allison Randal
• 2008-06-19 Mixins, generic routines and enums by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-06-17 Rakudo test suite progress by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-06-16 YAPC::NA -- Parrot Hackathon report #1 by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-06-13 Attributes, Attributes, Attributes! by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-06-09 Stupid Perl 6 Ideas While Sick (actually this is about proper constraint programming in Perl 6) by Ovid
• 2008-06-05 Ranges, Parameters And Many Fixes by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-06-02 Update on Rakudo test results by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-06-04 Slides From My Talks by Jonathan Worthington
• Implementing Perl 6, in Perl 6, on Parrot (PDF)
• Perl 6 Tutorial (PDF)
• Understanding Perl 6 (PDF)
• Using Perl 6 And Parrot In Teaching (PDF)
• All Your Dynamic Languages Are Belong To Us (PDF)
• 2008-05-31 Another busy week in Rakudo development by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-05-31 mod_perl6 Registry Scripts by Jeff Horwitz
• 2008-05-30 Rakudo Hacking and Talks by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-05-24 What C's Memory Management Gets Rightish by chromatic (Parrot)
• 2008-05-22 New features, code, and brainstorms by Patrick Michaud (Rakudo and Parrot)
• 2008-05-17 Rakudo Hacking: More OO, Captures and Ranges by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-05-17 Double-Speed by chromatic (Parrot)
• 2008-05-15 Catching up on Rakudo changes by Patrick Michaud
• FOSDEM 2008 Presentation
• Perl 6 (video)
• Perl 6 (slides)
• Texas Open Source Symposium Talks
• An Introduction to Perl 6
• Programming Parrot
• DFW.pm April 2008 meeting
• Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot
• 2008-05-14 Ian Hague funds Perl 6 development through the Perl Foundation (Awesome: $200,000!)
• 2008-05-13 Going Faster By Doing Less Work by chromatic (Parrot)
• 2008-05-10 More rakudo and parrot news by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-05-07 Good Error Messages are Important by chromatic (About Parrot's "Null PMC access in invoke()" error message.)
• 2008-05-06 Grammars Get Class-Like, And Other Bits by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-05-01 Today's Progress: Object Initialization And Grammar Work by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-05-01 Eclectus now emits Not Quite Perl6 by Bernhard Schmalhofer (Eclectus is a Scheme-compiler implemented in Scheme.)
• 2008-05-01 Various Rakudo Updates by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-05-29 Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot by Patrick Michaud (Slides from the DFW.pm talk.)
• 2008-04-28 Rakudo milestones posted by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-04-22 Refcounting Isn't All Bad by chromatic (How very selective recourse to reference counting speeds up Parrot.)
• 2008-04-12 More Parrot/Rakudo Optimizations by chromatic
• 2008-04-11 Yet Another Parrot/Rakudo Optimization by chromatic
• 2008-04-10 Multiple Dispatch Now, Please! by chromatic
• 2008-04-09 Delegation With 'handles' by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-04-08 Rakudo Gets Type Annotations And Checking by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-04-02 Perl 6 on Parrot (Rakudo) progress report by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-03-31 Rakudo gets some IO by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-03-28 Pairs and Subsets by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
• 2008-03-27 The Parrot Compiler Toolkit Tutorial by Ovid (concerns the tutorial posted on http://www.parrotblog.org/)
• 2008-03-08 Perl Myths by Tim bunce (PDF; Perl is not dead, Perl is not hard to read / test / maintain, Perl 6 is not killing off Perl 5.)
• 2008-02-23 Perl 6 by Patrick Michaud (video)
• 2008-02-16 The Future of mod_perl: Perl 6 and Beyond by Jeff Horwitz (PDF; Frozen Perl conference)
• 2008-02-15 Role Composition and Regexes by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-02-07 More Rakudo OO Hacking by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-02-07 What You Test Changes How You Test by chromatic (Read this if you're interested in helping out with testing. Donations of Windows PCs would also be helpful.)
• 2008-02-03 The Cult of Bootstrapping by chromatic (Why bootstrapping with the Parrot VM still makes huge sense.)
• 2008-02-02 The Mysterious Backstory of Perl QA (chromatic remix) by chromatic (How the Perl 6 project stimulated the important and impressinve advances in Perl 5 quality assurance.)
• 2008-02-01 New perl6doc executable by Brian d Foy (for rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot))
• 2008-02-?? Richard Dice about 'The Perl Foundation' (interview in the German Perl magazine "$foo-Magazin")
• 2008-01-23 w00t! Rakudo Perl has classes! by Andy Lester (progress report)
• 2008-01-15 Parrot 0.5.2 released, now with 'make perl6' by Bob Rogers
• 2008-01-06 My Perl 6 Hacking by Jonathan Worthington
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• 2007-11-16 Classes, Roles and Constraints in Perl 6 by Jonathan Worthington (French Perl Workshop 2007)
• 2007-11-16 Parrel New World by Jonathan Worthington (French Perl Workshop 2007)
• 2007-11-07 A Tour of Parrot by chromatic (linux-mag, free registration required to read)
• 2007-09-06 First mod_perl6 handlers by Jeff Horwitz
• 2007-05-10 Everyday Perl 6 by Jonathan Scott Duff
• 2007-04-27 Perl 6 Today by Audry Tang (Video of presentation at Google)
• 2007-03-19 Deploying And Supporting Perl 6 by Jonathan Worthington (UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference)
• 2007-03-01 The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing by Phil Crow
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• 2006-03-01 Refuting Perl 6 Myths by Juerd (8th German Perl Workshop, 2006)
• 2006-01-17 What is Perl 6 / Slashdot
• 2006-01-12 What is Perl 6 by chromatic
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• 2005-12-20 Larry Wall on Perl 6 / Slashdot
• 2005-12-19 Larry Wall on Perl 6 by M-Saunders in Linux Format (brief excerpts of printed version)
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• 2004-11-02 Cultured Perl: Perl 6 grammars and regular expressions by Teodor Zlatanov
• 2004-05-28 Periodic Table of the Operators by Mark Lentczner
• 2004-05-04 How to Sell Perl 6 by Ovid
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• 2003-06-12 The Case for Virtual Register Machines by Brian Davis, Andrew Beatty, Kevin Casey, David Gregg and John Waldron (PDF)
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• 2002-09-06 Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... / Slashdot
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• 2000-07-25 Report on the Perl 6 Announcement: Why? How? by Mark-Jason Dominus