Welcome to the home page for Perl 6

Perl 6 is the insanely great next version of the Perl programming language.

If you are curious, you can read about what is Perl 6.
If you want to learn Perl 6, please feel free to explore the Documentation.
If you want to help Perl 6 be released faster, please read about Getting Involved.
If you want to talk to people about Perl 6, hop on to the IRC channel irc.freenode.net#perl6 and ask any questions.
If you want to read the latest about Perl 6, see the Perl 6 News section below.

This Wiki is organized into the following sections.

• Learn About Perl 6 (What it is, articles, anti-FUD, etc.)
• The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List (Perl 6++!)
• Download Perl 6 (Yield to temptation.)
• Documentation (Current synopses, cookbook, examples, etc.)
• The Official Documents that describe Perl 6
• Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon
• FAQ
• QuickStart
• Mail Lists, IRC, Archives (Developer and user hotlines, plus logs.)
• Perl 6 for Perl 5 (Including Perl 5.10, Perl 6-ish modules, etc.)
• Getting Involved (Help hack Perl 6, tests, or release docs.)
• Related Projects (Parrot of course, CPAN6, and more.)
• About This Website (License. See Wiki 101 and help add content.)
• Content Wanted (More, more, more, and still more.)
• Discuss this website

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