What can YOU do with Perl 6 Now, Today, This minute?

Introduction

• Add tasks, exercises, and projects that can be done today with perl 6.
• Include brief explanations:
• How to run?
• What is required?
• Cite benchmarks (e.g. vs Perl 5, Python, Ruby, etc.), if possible.
• Each item should link to a page that gives a summary of its status (possible, buggy, depends on X) and includes or links to examples, benchmarks, articles, code, etc.
• Some places to check for potential content ideas:
• Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines
• Perl 6 Articles and Presentations (List of articles and presentations, most recent first)

Run Some Code

• Get and make Rakudo:
• Get and Make parrot
• svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot
• perl ./Configure.pl
• make
• use parrot languages/perl6/perl6.pbc some_code.p6
• Try make perl6 and then you can use ./perl6 some_code.p6
• Download some perl6 examples (from the github perl6-examples repo)
• git clone git://github.com/eric256/perl6-examples.git
• Download more perl6 examples (from the pugs repo)
• svn co http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/

Solve Mathematical / Computer Science Problems and Exercises

• Tower of Hanoi
• Hilberts Space Filling Curve
• Fibonacci Sequence
• Bubble Sort
• Quick Sort
• Hashing

File/Directory Access

• Random Access
• Streams
• Find
• Rsynch

Networking / IPC

• CGI (see November wiki below)
• NMS scripts
• Servers
• Forking
• IPC
• Apache Modules

Database Access

• DBI (under development) (but you can do something today)

Parsing

• ini files (simple task, just do it!)
• Apache logs
• Aeronautical / Weather Data Feeds
•  

Graphics

• Pie chart
• Fractals
• Render Vector / Bitmap Images
• Ascii Art
• 3D Graphics

User Interface

• WIMP GUI
• Curses
• Command line arguments/options

Web Applications

• November - wiki engine (simple CGI, HTML::Template and URI ports live in repo)

Use (Some) Perl 5 Modules from Perl 6

• Using Perl 5 Embedding

Use Other Languages from Perl 6

• Rakudo supports inline PIR (Pimchaud blog post)

See Also

• The (original prolog) 99 Problems page (and ovid's solution to one using perl 6)
• Perl 6 blogs at Planet Perl Six.
• Perl 6 CPAN : CPAN6.
• Rakudo (Perl6 on Parrot) Roadmap