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

If you're looking for ideas to write Perl 6 articles about, you might check out Perl 6 Newsgroup Threads of Interest.

Latest Articles and Presentations

Special searchs for recent articles

The items in this subsection are links to searches (or archives) that return lists of articles (ideally with the 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.
• Perl.com Article Archives of all articles (has both Perl 5 and Perl 6 articles):
• Perl.com Article Archive in date order (most recent first).
• Perl.com Article Archive grouped by topic.
• Perl 6 section of topical Perl.com Article Archive.
• Other searches....

List of articles and presentations, most recent first

If you're mainly looking for "news-y" and "recent developments" sorts of articles, then you should also check Special searchs for recent articles above for more results.

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 items here, putting the most recent items first.

• ...
• 2008-03-31 Rakudo gets some IO by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-03-28 Pairs and Subsets by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-03-27 The Parrot Compiler Toolkit Tutorial by Ovid (concerns the tutorial posted on http://www.parrotblog.org/)
• 2008-03-08 Perl Myths by Tim bunce (PDF; Perl is not dead, Perl is not hard to read / test / maintain, Perl 6 is not killing off Perl 5.)
• 2008-02-16 The Future of mod_perl: Perl 6 and Beyond by Jeff Horwitz (PDF; Frozen Perl conference)
• 2008-02-15 Role Composition and Regexes by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-02-07 More Rakudo OO Hacking by Jonathan Worthington (progress report)
• 2008-02-07 What You Test Changes How You Test by chromatic (Read this if you're interested in helping out with testing. Donations of Windows PCs would also be helpful.)
• 2008-02-03 The Cult of Bootstrapping by chromatic (Why bootstrapping with the Parrot VM still makes huge sense.)
• 2008-02-02 The Mysterious Backstory of Perl QA (chromatic remix) by chromatic (How the Perl 6 project stimulated the important and impressinve advances in Perl 5 quality assurance.)
• 2008-02-01 New perl6doc executable by Brian d Foy (for rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot))
• 2008-02-?? Richard Dice about 'The Perl Foundation' (interview in the German Perl magazine "$foo-Magazin")
• 2008-01-23 w00t! Rakudo Perl has classes! by Andy Lester (progress report)
• 2008-01-15 Parrot 0.5.2 released, now with 'make perl6' by Bob Rogers
• 2008-01-06 My Perl 6 Hacking by Jonathan Worthington
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• 2007-11-16 Classes, Roles and Constraints in Perl 6 by Jonathan Worthington (French Perl Workshop 2007)
• 2007-11-16 Parrel New World by Jonathan Worthington (French Perl Workshop 2007)
• 2007-11-07 A Tour of Parrot by chromatic (linux-mag, free registration required to read)
• 2007-09-06 First mod_perl6 handlers by Jeff Horwitz
• 2007-05-10 Everyday Perl 6 by Jonathan Scott Duff
• 2007-04-27 Perl 6 Today by Audry Tang (Video of presentation at Google)
• 2007-03-19 Deploying And Supporting Perl 6 by Jonathan Worthington (UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference)
• 2007-03-01 The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing by Phil Crow
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• 2006-03-01 Refuting Perl 6 Myths by Juerd (8th German Perl Workshop, 2006)
• 2006-01-17 What is Perl 6 / Slashdot
• 2006-01-12 What is Perl 6 by chromatic
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• 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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• 2004-11-02 Cultured Perl: Perl 6 grammars and regular expressions by Teodor Zlatanov
• 2004-05-28 Periodic Table of the Operators by Mark Lentczner
• 2004-05-04 How to Sell Perl 6 by Ovid
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• 2003-06-12 The Case for Virtual Register Machines by Brian Davis, Andrew Beatty, Kevin Casey, David Gregg and John Waldron (PDF)
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• 2002-09-06 Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... / Slashdot
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• 2000-07-25 Report on the Perl 6 Announcement: Why? How? by Mark-Jason Dominus

Catagorized Articles and Presentations

Grants and Support

Help solicit more of these sorts of grants for Perl 6 and Parrot!

• Parrot Grant from NLNet (Thanks NLNet!!)
• The Mozilla Foundation and the Perl 6 on Parrot Grant (Thanks Mozilla!!)
• List of all Perl Foundation Grants

Perl 6 Language Design

Larry Wall's Presentations

• Larry Wall's Talks
• State of the Onion

Other Items

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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 developing 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.
• Some Paul Graham essays on programming language design. Although Graham's background is Lisp and he is the designer of Arc, many of his themes are highly relevant to understanding (1) why Perl 6 is going to be a huge success, and (2) how you can take great advantage of Perl 6.
• "The 100 Year Language" (2003-04) is a classic programming language essay on how we should view Perl 6 — even though it's not about Perl 6.
• "Why Arc Isn't Especially Object Oriented"
• "Design Philosophy"
• "Five Questions About Language Design" (2001-05)
• "Six Principles for Making New Things" (2008-02)
• "The Venture Capital Squeeze" (2005-11) "During the Bubble, a lot of people predicted that startups would outsource their development to India. I think a better model for the future is David Heinemeier Hansson, who outsourced his development to a more powerful language instead."
• "Programming Bottom-Up" (1993)
• "Revenge of the Nerds" (2002-05)
• "The Python Paradox" (2004-08)

Perl 6 Topics

• Perl 6 microarticles

External agregators

• Perl 6 and Parrot links - more than 300 Perl 6 and Parrot VM related links (perl6.cz wiki)
• Planet Perl Six - an aggregator of select Perl 6 related blogs
• Planet Parrot - an aggregation of select Parrot related blogs