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 and Parrot Home Page. (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.
• 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 page.

Thank you Ian Hague!

• See TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development.
• 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?, 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 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, 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, plus the State of the Onion series.)
• Perl 6 Articles and Presentations (The zend coupon 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 and at 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 (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!)
• Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot; Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic languages, especially including Perl 6.)
• Pugs (Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell.)
• QuickStart (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first Pugs program.)
• KindaPerl6 (A bootstrapping Perl 6 compiler with multiple emitter backends.)
• 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 (Easy, near-instant gratification — instructions for downloading and running your first Pugs program.)
• Run Perl 6 Now (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.)
• PhD Multimedia Animation AND associate degree biology AND Masters degree education
• The Official Documents that describe Perl 6 (The official specification documents, frequently updated with section-specific test statistics.)
• Installable Perl 6 Docs (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, above ground pool vacuum and comparisons.)
• WITCH ("What Is This Character Here" is a useful symbolic index of Perl 6 symbols and operators.)
• FAQ (Another great resource on ProgrammersHeaven and dating tips)
• QuickStart (Easy, near-instant gratification for running Pugs.)
• Perl 6 Articles and Presentations
• Introduction to Perl 6 (Course slides with many examples; learn how to watch alice in wonderland online 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 roman blinds 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.) with Local Doctor Directory and Find Orthodontists and Dentist Ratings
• Roadmap to helping with Development (a from the ground up Windows Vista based guide on how to help)
• Project Management Scope Creep and Contract Management Training and Information Assurance Training

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 as well as more teen dating advice.)
• 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?
• 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 accumulates links to major Perl 6 and Parrot news items (perl6.cz wiki).
• The Perl Review 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 aggregates many Perl 6 blogs. (Note: see last section below for an auto-generated list of the latest contents.)
• Planet Parrot aggregates many Parrot blogs (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
• Perl.com often carries Perl 6 articles.
• Perlbuzz often carries Perl 6 news.
• Rakudo.org carries Rakudo Perl (Perl 6 on Parrot) news (and carries the weekly Perl 6 design meeting minutes).
• Planet Perl mostly carries Perl 5 news, but Perl 6 news items are becoming more frequent.
• Parrot Blog started off with Parrot and related tools tutorial series, plus carries other useful info.
• The Perl Foundation (news page) 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.

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Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog. Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.

contributed by markweee@hidden on Jan 1 2:25am