Perl 6
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^^ Welcome to the Official Perl 6 Wiki
Any language which passes the Perl 6 specification tests is an implementation of Perl 6. "Rakudo" is the name of one of the implementations. There are others.
* [Rakudo] Perl 6 is the Perl 6 implementation based on the [Parrot] VM. There are also Haskell and C implementations underway. Rakudo Perl 6 interoperates with other Parrot-based languages. See the "Official Parrot Wiki"<http://www.parrot.org/wiki/parrot> and "Parrot Home Page"<http://www.parrot.org/>. (These changed in fall, 2008, with the foundation of the Parrot Foundation.)
* Perl 6 will of course also support mainline Perl 5.10+ (and thus CPAN) interoperability. Here's the "Official Perl 5 Wiki"<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5>.
* [Amazing Perl 6] snippets
^^^ Awesome "Cross the Finish Line" grant for Rakudo Perl 6
* [Parrot] 1.0 was released March 17th 2009! Try it! ([Rakudo] Perl 6 use the Parrot VM)
* [Rakudo] Perl 6 now has a "Rakudo Status Page"<http://rakudo.org/status> page.
^^^^ Thank you Ian Hague!
* See "TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development"<http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html>.
* This should see us through the first official early production-level release of [Rakudo] Perl 6.
* Please consider following Ian's example. There's still lots of additional valuable work to support.
^^^ Endless thanks to all of our wonderful supporters
* Bless all of our [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters]. Please consider becoming one of them.
* Likewise for the great team of [Perl 6 People] (including many volunteers).
^^^ Perl 6 is the "Super-Perl" successor of Perl 5
* "We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing." — Larry Wall (2000).
* "The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great...." — Damian Conway (2003).
* "Perl 6 and Parrot have some extremely ambitious goals, and it’s my belief that the value and impact of our hard work and patience is going to play out for a very long time — that is, over at least many decades." — Patrick Michaud (2006).
^^^ First Look Shortcuts
*If you ...*
* want to see the newest developments, see [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] (includes major blog posts).
* are curious, read "What is Perl 6?"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>, [Learn About Perl 6], and [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List].
* want to learn about Perl 6 in general, explore the [Documentation].
* want to help Perl 6 be released faster, read about [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], and [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].
* want to talk to developers about Perl 6, read [Mail Lists, IRC, Archives] about IRC channel #perl6.
* want to read the latest Perl 6 news, see the {link: Perl 6 News} section below, or see the [Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines] for an auto-generated master list of current headlines from all of the major Perl 6 news feeds.
* are interested in Perl 6 books, products, services, jobs, etc., see [Perl 6 Books and Media] and the [Perl 6 Marketplace].
^^ Main Sections
Some links on this page occur in more than one location to make finding relevant things easier and more likely,"Assignments"<http://www.papermoz.com/papermoz/assignment.aspx> although this requires some extra effort when updating this page. ("There's more than one way to find it.")
* [Upcoming Events] (Conferences, hackathons, etc.)
^^^ Introduction
* [Learn About Perl 6] (What it is, articles, anti-FUD, etc.)
* [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List] (Perl 6++! "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us." :-)
* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon] ("-Ofun", IRC and newsgroup slang, "Perl 6" versus "perl6".)
* [Larry Wall's Talks] (Postmodern design theory and other forms of ingenious pragmatism,"book reports"<http://www.papermoz.com/papermoz/book-report.aspx> plus the [State of the Onion] series.)
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] (The pace is definitely picking up.)
* [Perl 6 People] (Who did what, who is doing what, who is interested in what, potential collaborators, etc.)
^^^ Development Status
* For [Rakudo] Perl 6, see [rakudo feature status].
* [What can I do with Perl 6 today?] (Things that you can use or try out now. For example, [November], a wiki in Perl 6.)
* The "weekly Perl 6 design meeting" minutes show up on "Planet Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/> and at "Rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> (see Rakudo.org headlines at the bottom of this page).
* [When will Perl 6 be released?] (Maybe something by this Christmas, if you and enough other people help out: see [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].)
** [Development Dashboard] (Perl 6 project status and plans.)
** "STATUS file in languages/perl6"<http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/languages/perl6/docs/STATUS> (Links to the Parrot svn.)
** [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.)
^^^ Implementations
* [Perl 6 implementations] ("TIMTOWTDI"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_more_than_one_way_to_do_it>!)
** [Pugs] (Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell.)
*** "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first [Pugs] program.)
** [KindaPerl6] (A bootstrapping Perl 6 compiler with multiple emitter backends.)
** [Rakudo] (Perl 6 on Parrot; [Parrot] is a virtual machine for dynamic languages, especially including Perl 6.)
** [Perl 6 for Perl 5] (Including Perl 5.10, Perl 6-ish modules, etc.)
** [SMOP] (Simplistic Meta Object Programming / Small Matter Of Programming: a non-VM C runtime engine for running Perl 6.)
* [DistributionFormat]
* [Summer of Code Ideas]
^^^^ Downloads
* [Download Perl 6] (Yield to temptation!)
* [Download Pugs] (Haskell-based Perl 6 compiler with multiple back ends.)
** "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first [Pugs] program.)
** "Run Perl 6 Now"<http://run.pugscode.org/> (No download needed: this runs [Pugs] in your browser.)
* Download [Rakudo] (Perl 6 on Parrot.)
^^^ Online Documentation
* General [Documentation] overview (Current synopses, cookbook, Perl 6 code examples and test suites, etc.)
* "The Official Documents that describe Perl 6"<http://perlcabal.org/syn/> (The official specification documents, frequently updated with section-specific test statistics.)
* "Installable Perl 6 Docs"<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Doc/> (A CPAN module of the P6 docs.)
* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon] ("-Ofun", IRC and newsgroup slang, "Perl 6" versus "perl6".)
* [Perl Tablets] (Soon-to-be the big, all-in-one tutorial with index, tables, and comparisons.)
* [WITCH] ("What Is This Character Here" is a useful symbolic index of Perl 6 symbols and operators.)
* "FAQ"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ> (Another great resource on ProgrammersHeaven)
* "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification for running [Pugs].)
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations]
** "Introduction to Perl 6"<http://www.szabgab.com/perl6.html> (Course slides with many examples; a work-in-progress.)
** [Perl 6 microarticles] (The "Yet another Perl 6 operator" YAP6 series and more.)
* [Perl 6 Newsgroup Threads of Interest] (Stuff that may not yet be well-known or well-documented elsewhere yet.)
* [Larry Wall's Talks] (Postmodern design theory and other forms of ingenius pramatism, plus the [State of the Onion] series.)
* [Perl 6 Quotes] (notable quotes about Perl 6)
* [Perl 6 People] (Who is doing what, who is interested in what, potential collaborators, etc.)
* Anti-[FUD] (Some non-ballistic responses.)
* [Roadmap to helping with Development] (a from the ground up Windows Vista based guide on how to help)
^^^ Products and Services
* [Perl 6 Books and Media] (Both existing and planned.)
* [Perl 6 Marketplace] (Products, services, jobs, and so on.)
^^^ Other Information
* [Mail Lists, IRC, Archives] (Developer and user hotlines, plus logs and archives.)
* [Getting Involved] (Help hack on Perl 6, or write new test cases, or work on docs.)
* [Related Projects] (CPAN6, PITA, and more.)
* [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising] (Help hack on the Perl 6 ecosystem.)
^^^ About This Wiki
* [About This Wiki] (License and other info.)
* [Quick Start] (How you can work on this Wiki.)
* "What Goes On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Goes On This Wiki?}
* "What Does Not Go On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Does Not Go On This Wiki?}
* [Content Wanted] (More, more, more, and still more.)
* [Discuss this website] (Posting to perl6.users is more likely to get useful attention.)
^^^ Perl 6 News Outlets
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] lists recent (and historical) articles, presentations, and blog posts of interest.
* "Perl 6 and Parrot links"<http://perl6.cz/wiki/Perl_6_and_Parrot_links> accumulates links to major Perl 6 and Parrot news items (perl6.cz wiki).
* "The Perl Review"<http://www.theperlreview.com/> is published quarterly (both in print and PDF).
^^^^ Consolidated Perl 6 RSS News Feeds
* [Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines] is a convenient all-in-1 auto-generated current list of the most recent articles from all of the following sites. (The "normal" non-RSS links are provided below.)
** "Planet Perl Six"<http://planetsix.perl.org/> aggregates many Perl 6 blogs. (Note: see last section below for an auto-generated list of the latest contents.)
** "Planet Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/> aggregates many [Parrot] blogs (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
** "Perl.com"<http://www.perl.com/> often carries Perl 6 articles.
** "Perlbuzz"<http://www.perlbuzz.com/> often carries Perl 6 news.
** "writing help"<http://www.papermoz.com/>
** "Rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> carries Rakudo Perl (Perl 6 on Parrot) news (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
** "Planet Perl"<http://planet.perl.org/> mostly carries Perl 5 news, but Perl 6 news items are becoming more frequent.
** "Parrot Blog"<http://www.parrotblog.org/> started off with Parrot and related tools tutorial series, plus carries other useful info.
** "The Perl Foundation (news page)"<http://news.perlfoundation.org/> announces Perl 6 grants, etc.
^^ Latest "Planet Perl 6" and "Rakudo" (Perl 6 on Parrot) Headlines
The current lists below are auto-generated when you load this page.
{fetchrss: http://planetsix.perlfoundation.org/rss20.xml}
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{fetchrss: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rakudo-dot-org}
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^^ Welcome to the Official Perl 6 Wiki
Any language which passes the Perl 6 specification tests is an implementation of Perl 6. "Rakudo" is the name of one of the implementations. There are others.
* [Rakudo] Perl 6 is the Perl 6 implementation based on the [Parrot] VM. There are also Haskell and C implementations underway. Rakudo Perl 6 interoperates with other Parrot-based languages. See the "Official Parrot Wiki"<http://www.parrot.org/wiki/parrot> and "Parrot Home Page"<http://www.parrot.org/>. (These changed in fall, 2008, with the foundation of the Parrot Foundation.)
* Perl 6 will of course also support mainline Perl 5.10+ (and thus CPAN) interoperability. Here's the "Official Perl 5 Wiki"<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5>.
* [Amazing Perl 6] snippets
^^^ Awesome "Cross the Finish Line" grant for Rakudo Perl 6
* [Parrot] 1.0 was released March 17th 2009! Try it! ([Rakudo] Perl 6 use the Parrot VM)
* [Rakudo] Perl 6 now has a "Rakudo Status Page"<http://rakudo.org/status> page.
^^^^ Thank you Ian Hague!
* See "TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development"<http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html>.
* This should see us through the first official early production-level release of [Rakudo] Perl 6.
* Please consider following Ian's example. There's still lots of additional valuable work to support.
^^^ Endless thanks to all of our wonderful supporters
* Bless all of our [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters]. Please consider becoming one of them.
* Likewise for the great team of [Perl 6 People] (including many volunteers).
^^^ Perl 6 is the "Super-Perl" successor of Perl 5
* "We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing." — Larry Wall (2000).
* "The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great...." — Damian Conway (2003).
* "Perl 6 and Parrot have some extremely ambitious goals, and it’s my belief that the value and impact of our hard work and patience is going to play out for a very long time — that is, over at least many decades." — Patrick Michaud (2006).
^^^ First Look Shortcuts
*If you ...*
* want to see the newest developments, see [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] (includes major blog posts).
* are curious, read "What is Perl 6?"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>, [Learn About Perl 6], and [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List].
* want to learn about Perl 6 in general, explore the [Documentation].
* want to help Perl 6 be released faster, read about [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], and [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].
* want to talk to developers about Perl 6, read [Mail Lists, IRC, Archives] about IRC channel #perl6.
* want to read the latest Perl 6 news, see the {link: Perl 6 News} section below, or see the [Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines] for an auto-generated master list of current headlines from all of the major Perl 6 news feeds.
* are interested in Perl 6 books, products, services, jobs, etc., see [Perl 6 Books and Media] and the [Perl 6 Marketplace].
^^ Main Sections
Some links on this page occur in more than one location to make finding relevant things easier and more likely,"Assignments"<http://www.papermoz.com/papermoz/assignment.aspx> although this requires some extra effort when updating this page. ("There's more than one way to find it.")
* [Upcoming Events] (Conferences, hackathons, etc.)
^^^ Introduction
* [Learn About Perl 6] (What it is, articles, anti-FUD, etc.)
* [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List] (Perl 6++! "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us." :-)
* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon] ("-Ofun", IRC and newsgroup slang, "Perl 6" versus "perl6".)
* [Larry Wall's Talks] (Postmodern design theory and other forms of ingenious pragmatism,"book reports"<http://www.papermoz.com/papermoz/book-report.aspx> plus the [State of the Onion] series.)
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] (The pace is definitely picking up.)
* [Perl 6 People] (Who did what, who is doing what, who is interested in what, potential collaborators, etc.)
^^^ Development Status
* For [Rakudo] Perl 6, see [rakudo feature status].
* [What can I do with Perl 6 today?] (Things that you can use or try out now. For example, [November], a wiki in Perl 6.)
* The "weekly Perl 6 design meeting" minutes show up on "Planet Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/> and at "Rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> (see Rakudo.org headlines at the bottom of this page).
* [When will Perl 6 be released?] (Maybe something by this Christmas, if you and enough other people help out: see [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].)
** [Development Dashboard] (Perl 6 project status and plans.)
** "STATUS file in languages/perl6"<http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/languages/perl6/docs/STATUS> (Links to the Parrot svn.)
** [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.)
^^^ Implementations
* [Perl 6 implementations] ("TIMTOWTDI"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_more_than_one_way_to_do_it>!)
** [Pugs] (Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell.)
*** "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first [Pugs] program.)
** [KindaPerl6] (A bootstrapping Perl 6 compiler with multiple emitter backends.)
** [Rakudo] (Perl 6 on Parrot; [Parrot] is a virtual machine for dynamic languages, especially including Perl 6.)
** [Perl 6 for Perl 5] (Including Perl 5.10, Perl 6-ish modules, etc.)
** [SMOP] (Simplistic Meta Object Programming / Small Matter Of Programming: a non-VM C runtime engine for running Perl 6.)
* [DistributionFormat]
* [Summer of Code Ideas]
^^^^ Downloads
* [Download Perl 6] (Yield to temptation!)
* [Download Pugs] (Haskell-based Perl 6 compiler with multiple back ends.)
** "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first [Pugs] program.)
** "Run Perl 6 Now"<http://run.pugscode.org/> (No download needed: this runs [Pugs] in your browser.)
* Download [Rakudo] (Perl 6 on Parrot.)
^^^ Online Documentation
* General [Documentation] overview (Current synopses, cookbook, Perl 6 code examples and test suites, etc.)
* "The Official Documents that describe Perl 6"<http://perlcabal.org/syn/> (The official specification documents, frequently updated with section-specific test statistics.)
* "Installable Perl 6 Docs"<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Doc/> (A CPAN module of the P6 docs.)
* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon] ("-Ofun", IRC and newsgroup slang, "Perl 6" versus "perl6".)
* [Perl Tablets] (Soon-to-be the big, all-in-one tutorial with index, tables, and comparisons.)
* [WITCH] ("What Is This Character Here" is a useful symbolic index of Perl 6 symbols and operators.)
* "FAQ"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ> (Another great resource on ProgrammersHeaven)
* "QuickStart"<http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart> (Easy, near-instant gratification for running [Pugs].)
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations]
** "Introduction to Perl 6"<http://www.szabgab.com/perl6.html> (Course slides with many examples; a work-in-progress.)
** [Perl 6 microarticles] (The "Yet another Perl 6 operator" YAP6 series and more.)
* [Perl 6 Newsgroup Threads of Interest] (Stuff that may not yet be well-known or well-documented elsewhere yet.)
* [Larry Wall's Talks] (Postmodern design theory and other forms of ingenius pramatism, plus the [State of the Onion] series.)
* [Perl 6 Quotes] (notable quotes about Perl 6)
* [Perl 6 People] (Who is doing what, who is interested in what, potential collaborators, etc.)
* Anti-[FUD] (Some non-ballistic responses.)
* [Roadmap to helping with Development] (a from the ground up Windows Vista based guide on how to help)
^^^ Products and Services
* [Perl 6 Books and Media] (Both existing and planned.)
* [Perl 6 Marketplace] (Products, services, jobs, and so on.)
^^^ Other Information
* [Mail Lists, IRC, Archives] (Developer and user hotlines, plus logs and archives.)
* [Getting Involved] (Help hack on Perl 6, or write new test cases, or work on docs.)
* [Related Projects] (CPAN6, PITA, and more.)
* [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising] (Help hack on the Perl 6 ecosystem.)
^^^ About This Wiki
* [About This Wiki] (License and other info.)
* [Quick Start] (How you can work on this Wiki.)
* "What Goes On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Goes On This Wiki?}
* "What Does Not Go On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Does Not Go On This Wiki?}
* [Content Wanted] (More, more, more, and still more.)
* [Discuss this website] (Posting to perl6.users is more likely to get useful attention.)
^^^ Perl 6 News Outlets
* [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] lists recent (and historical) articles, presentations, and blog posts of interest.
* "Perl 6 and Parrot links"<http://perl6.cz/wiki/Perl_6_and_Parrot_links> accumulates links to major Perl 6 and Parrot news items (perl6.cz wiki).
* "The Perl Review"<http://www.theperlreview.com/> is published quarterly (both in print and PDF).
^^^^ Consolidated Perl 6 RSS News Feeds
* [Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines] is a convenient all-in-1 auto-generated current list of the most recent articles from all of the following sites. (The "normal" non-RSS links are provided below.)
** "Planet Perl Six"<http://planetsix.perl.org/> aggregates many Perl 6 blogs. (Note: see last section below for an auto-generated list of the latest contents.)
** "Planet Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/> aggregates many [Parrot] blogs (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
** "Perl.com"<http://www.perl.com/> often carries Perl 6 articles.
** "Perlbuzz"<http://www.perlbuzz.com/> often carries Perl 6 news.
** "writing help"<http://www.papermoz.com/>
** "Rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> carries Rakudo Perl (Perl 6 on Parrot) news (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
** "Planet Perl"<http://planet.perl.org/> mostly carries Perl 5 news, but Perl 6 news items are becoming more frequent.
** "Parrot Blog"<http://www.parrotblog.org/> started off with Parrot and related tools tutorial series, plus carries other useful info.
** "The Perl Foundation (news page)"<http://news.perlfoundation.org/> announces Perl 6 grants, etc.
^^ Latest "Planet Perl 6" and "Rakudo" (Perl 6 on Parrot) Headlines
The current lists below are auto-generated when you load this page.
{fetchrss: http://planetsix.perlfoundation.org/rss20.xml}
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{fetchrss: http://feeds.feedburner.com/rakudo-dot-org}
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