NOTE: You can also add other sorts of timely reference material here, such as links to web sites with Perl 6 related conference proceedings, Perl 6 related books and book reviews, etc.

Latest Articles and Presentations

Special searchs for recent articles

The items in this subsection are links to searches that return lists of articles with most recent articles appearing first.

• Articles posted at O'Reilly websites (click on "Articles and Blogs" in search results):
• Search for articles mentioning 'Perl 6'.
• Search for articles mentioning 'by Adriano Ferreira', the author of the 'Yet Another Perl 6 ....' series of Perl 6 microarticles.
• Search for articles mentioning 'by chromatic', the author of many Perl 6 articles and @Larry member.
• Other searches....
• Other searches....

List of articles and presentations, most recent first

Use this general format for listing items (with the title liked to the item's URL):

• 2099-12-25 Happy Birthday, Perl 8 by Lucky Author (Any special notes, such as technical level, language, etc.)

Add articles here, with most recent items at the top.

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• 2007-05-10 Everyday Perl 6 by Jonathan Scott Duff
• 2007-03-01 The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing by Phil Crow
• 2006-01-17 What is Perl 6 / Slashdot
• 2006-01-12 What is Perl 6 by chromatic
• 2006-??-?? Refuting Perl 6 Myths by Juerd (This was written well before Perl 5.10 was released.)
• 2005-12-20 Larry Wall on Perl 6 / Slashdot
• 2005-12-19 Larry Wall on Perl 6 by M-Saunders in Linux Format (Brief excerpts of printed version.)
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• 2000-07-25 Report on the Perl 6 Announcement: Why? How? by Mark-Jason Dominus
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Catagorized Articles and Presentations

Grants and Support

Help solicit more of these sorts of grants!

• The Mozilla Foundation and the Perl 6 on Parrot Grant (Thanks Mozilla!!)

Perl 6 Language Design

Larry Wall's Presentations

• Larry Wall's Talks
• State of the Onion

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Other Languages (relevant to Perl 6)

• "Perl Best Practices" by Damian Conway. Even though this currently applies to Perl 5, most of the principles also apply to Perl 6. This book is a semi-officially recommended guideline for people doing develop core Perl 6 modules and tests.
• "Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman; Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell" (Warning: PDF link) by Erik Meijer.
• "Traits" are one of the "Big Ideas" that have influenced #perl6 design discussions.
• "The 100 Year Language" by Paul Graham. A classic essay on how we should view Perl 6 (even though it's not about Perl 6).

Perl 6 Topics

• Perl 6 microarticles
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