This page is for general resources to learn about Perl 6. For the official and other documentation, see the Documentation page.

General Info

• Perl 6 Executive Summary
• other good summaries are:
• why Perl 6 is needed, and what it is, a good introductory article by chromatic.
• Also see Juerd's Refuting Perl 6 Myths. (A slight correction to Juerd's slides: Perl 5.10 has many Perl 6 features you can start using. These are in feature.pm.)
• Learn what Perl 6 is within few, often funny words: Perl 6 Quotes. Example: Perl 6 is an extensively refactored, super-modernized, and ultra-supercharged derivative of Perl 5. Simple things will still be simple to do, but you'll have enormously more "syntactic compound leverage" and "semantic overdrive" available for tackling challenging tasks.
• Often asked Questions are hopefully answered in the FAQ.
• Project Overview
• Or visit Perl 6 subpage on Perl's Official Home Page

Read about Perl 6

• Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines, this pages has also links to all grazed news sources.
• Articles and Presentations
• State of the Onion (Larry Wall's yearly Perl status reports, with much humor-infested commentary on Perl 6 design philosophy, processes, and illuminating insights.)
• other Larry Wall's Talks
• Perl 6 Books and Media
• The Perl Review contains Perl 6 articles and is published quarterly (both in print and PDF).
• Perl 6 Newsgroup Threads of Interest

More Practical

• Amazing Perl 6, some highlights
• Best Of Perl 6 Tablet
• The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List
• What can I do with Perl 6 today?
• Download Perl 6

Perl 6 Example code

• Perl 6 examples (http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/)
• Perl 6 tests (http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/t/)
• Perl 6 Community Development Server