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Perl 6 Articles and Presentations: Revision 137
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- 2008-12-10 ""<>
- 2008-12-10 Grant accepted for Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo by Gábor Szabó
- 2008-12-11 Plans for Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo by Gábor Szabó
- 2008-12-11 rakudo spec test coverage chart by Jerry Gay
- 2008-12-09 Parrot development speed by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-12-10 ;; works, making illegal things illegal by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-11 Exception Handlers in HLLs by Stephen Weeks
- 2008-12-11 Final Report on DeepText Multi-Dispatch Grant by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-12 It's sort of like... (about adding the sort hashes by .value feature) by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-12-12 Rakudo now passing over 5,000 spectests by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-12-11 Planning for my Hague Grant by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-11 Currying in Perl 6 by Stephen Weeks
- 2008-12-10 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-12-09 Hyper/cross/reduction operators, IO tweaks and more by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-06 November in December (Perl 6 Wiki running under mod_perl6) by Jeff Horwitz
- 2008-12-05 Fixes for Rakudo, and Parrot too by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-05 Database access in Perl 6 is coming along nicely by Andy Lester
- 2008-12-05 Perl 6 Tidings from December 2008 by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-12-05 That was the month that was (Lots of progress on November (Perl 6 based Wiki).) by Carl Masak
- 2008-12-04 A First Cut On proto by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-12-04 Rakudo now supports inline PIR by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-12-03 Better Diagnostics On Ambiguous Dispatch by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-30 mod_parrot Documentation by Jeff Horwitz
- 2008-11-30 .subst now honors :g(lobal) flag by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-28 infix: now works on Ranges in Rakudo by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-26 A day of Rakudo bug-fixing by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-25 Lexicals have arrived by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-22 Multiple Dispatch: More features and speed by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-21 Recent Progess (mod_parrot, mod_perl6) by Jeff Horwitz
- 2008-11-21 Automatic Variables in a GCd Language by chromatic
- 2008-11-19 Parrot 1.0 will be out in March 2009 by Andy Lester
- 2008-11-18 Updated rakudo ROADMAP by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-16 A Roadmap from the Parrot Developer Summit by chromatic
- 2008-11-15 New Parrot Foundation Website
- 2008-11-13 Rakudo any/all/none junctions now collapse by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-13 The world according to .PARROT by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-11-11 Rakudo container refactor and fixes by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-10 Wrap-up Report on Patrick Michaud's Mozilla Foundation / Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant by Richard Dice
- 2008-11-10 Perl 6 Tidings for November 2008 by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-11-09 Rakudo: Assorted improvements by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-09 TPF awards Hague Grant to Jerry Gay, core 'Rakudo' Perl 6 team member, regarding S19 command line by Richard Dice
- 2008-11-09 TPF awards first Hague Grant to Patrick Michaud, head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort by Richard Dice
- 2008-11-05 BBC joins Parrot Foundation advisory board by Andy Lester
- 2008-11-04 My first day back on Rakudo by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-11-03 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo by Gabor Szabo (Padre is a new {open source, Perl-friendly, and Scintilla-based} IDE/editor.)
- 2008-10-30 Not Writing Perl 6 by Ovid
- 2008-10-27 Multi-Primitive Dispatch Autoboxing Obsession by chromatic
- 2008-10-23 Perl 6 isn't vaporware by Neil McAllister
- 2008-10-23 Perl 6 isn't exactly vaporware by Andy Lester.
- 2008-10-20 Running Perl 6 Tests In Vim by Ovid
- 2008-10-19 Configuring Vim for Perl 6 by Ovid
- 2008-10-19 Zero Defect Code in Ada and Perl 6 by Ovid
- 2008-10-19 Allison Randal on the Parrot Foundation advisory board, and the state of Parrot 1.0 BY Andy Lester.
- 2008-10-19 Perl 5 to 6 - Rules (formerly Regexes) by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-19 Perl 5 to 6 - Containers and Values by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-19 Perl 5 to 6 - Regexes strike back by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-19 Perl 6 Tidings from September and October 2008 by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-16 ActiveState joins the Parrot Foundation advisory board: What does that mean for Parrot and Perl 6? by Andy Lester
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Contexts by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Objects and Classes by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Subroutines and Signatures by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Basic Control Structures by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Types by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Strings, Arrays, Hashes; by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-12 Perl 5 to 6 - Introduction by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-10-01 What Perl 6 Is Going to Do by Ovid
- 2008-09-25 partcl running with tcltest.tcl by Will Coleda
- 2008-09-19 Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo by Vadim Konovalov
- 2008-09-18 Re-architecting mod_parrot by Jeff Horwitz
- 2008-09-12 Rakudo MMD now using Perl 6 algorithm by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-09-11 'Final report' for Mozilla Foundation and TPF grant by Patrick R. Michaud
- 2008-09-04 Multi-dispatch progress by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-08-31 Google Summer of Code Mentor Recap by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-08-27 Why you don't need the Y combinator in Perl 6 by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-08-25 Recent rakudo news by Patrick R. Michaud
- 2008-08-21 Recent Perl 6 Developments August 2008 by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-08-21 Blog series: Perl 6 feature show off and Tutorial by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-08-21 The Mind of Damian Conway: Science, Computer Science, the Future of Perl 6, and Advice for Today's Aspiring Programmers by Kathryn Barrett (interview with transcript and flash video)
- 2008-08-14 November (A Perl 6 Wiki) by Carl Mäsak and Johan Viklund (YAPC Europe 2008, PDF)
- 2008-08-09 Lots of Rakudo fixes/enhancements by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-08-07 APL (Programming some APL operators in Perl 6) by John M. Dlugosz
- 2008-08-05 Fixing bugs, and looking at where we're at by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-08-05 Multiple Dispatch Design Work by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-31 Pugs.hs is back by Audrey Tang (Pugs was the first Perl 6 compiler, written in Haskell.)
- 2008-07-30 v6.pm is back by fglock ("v6" is a CPAN module that implements a Perl 6 compiler that runs in Perl 5.)
- 2008-07-27 Building a Huffman Tree With Rakudo by Moritz Lenz
- 2008-07-26 Class attributes and many fixes by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-23 Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot (OSCON 2008) by Patrick R. Michaud and Jerry Gay
- 2008-07-22 Larry Wall at OSCON: Open Source as a Parenting Experience James Turner interviews Larry Wall (video)
- 2008-07-19 Anonymous classes and meta-class stuff by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-14 What will scientific computing in Perl 6 look like? Thread on Perlmonks
- 2008-07-10 Enums and the 'but' operator by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-08 Getting Involved with Perl 6 - an Update by Moritz Lenz (About how you can get involved.)
- 2008-07-08 Signature Objects by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-03 Lexical Fixes by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-07-01 Where's the goal line? by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-07-01 Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot) progress report by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-06-27 Rakudo Perl now passing over 1000 spectests! by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-06-25 'make perl6' on OS X by Curtis Poe
- 2008-06-24 Announcing the Parrot Foundation by Allison Randal
- 2008-06-19 Mixins, generic routines and enums by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-06-17 Rakudo test suite progress by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-06-16 YAPC::NA -- Parrot Hackathon report #1 by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-06-13 Attributes, Attributes, Attributes! by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 2008-06-09 Stupid Perl 6 Ideas While Sick (actually this is about proper constraint programming in Perl 6) by Ovid
- 2008-06-05 Ranges, Parameters And Many Fixes by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 2008-06-02 Update on Rakudo test results by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-06-04 Slides From My Talks by Jonathan Worthington
- Implementing Perl 6, in Perl 6, on Parrot (PDF)
- Perl 6 Tutorial (PDF)
- Understanding Perl 6 (PDF)
- Using Perl 6 And Parrot In Teaching (PDF)
- All Your Dynamic Languages Are Belong To Us (PDF)
- 2008-05-31 Another busy week in Rakudo development by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-05-31 mod_perl6 Registry Scripts by Jeff Horwitz
- 2008-05-30 Rakudo Hacking and Talks by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-05-24 What C's Memory Management Gets Rightish by chromatic (Parrot)
- 2008-05-22 New features, code, and brainstorms by Patrick Michaud (Rakudo and Parrot)
- 2008-05-17 Rakudo Hacking: More OO, Captures and Ranges by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-05-17 Double-Speed by chromatic (Parrot)
- 2008-05-15 Catching up on Rakudo changes by Patrick Michaud
- FOSDEM 2008 Presentation
- Texas Open Source Symposium Talks
- DFW.pm April 2008 meeting
- 2008-05-14 Ian Hague funds Perl 6 development through the Perl Foundation (Awesome: $200,000!)
- 2008-05-13 Going Faster By Doing Less Work by chromatic (Parrot)
- 2008-05-10 More rakudo and parrot news by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-05-07 Good Error Messages are Important by chromatic (About Parrot's "Null PMC access in invoke()" error message.)
- 2008-05-06 Grammars Get Class-Like, And Other Bits by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 2008-05-01 Today's Progress: Object Initialization And Grammar Work by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 2008-05-01 Eclectus now emits Not Quite Perl6 by Bernhard Schmalhofer (Eclectus is a Scheme-compiler implemented in Scheme.)
- 2008-05-01 Various Rakudo Updates by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-05-29 Rakudo Perl - Perl 6 on Parrot by Patrick Michaud (Slides from the DFW.pm talk.)
- 2008-04-28 Rakudo milestones posted by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-04-22 Refcounting Isn't All Bad by chromatic (How very selective recourse to reference counting speeds up Parrot.)
- 2008-04-12 More Parrot/Rakudo Optimizations by chromatic
- 2008-04-11 Yet Another Parrot/Rakudo Optimization by chromatic
- 2008-04-10 Multiple Dispatch Now, Please! by chromatic
- 2008-04-09 Delegation With 'handles' by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 2008-04-08 Rakudo Gets Type Annotations And Checking by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-04-02 Perl 6 on Parrot (Rakudo) progress report by Patrick Michaud
- 2008-03-31 Rakudo gets some IO by Jonathan Worthington
- 2008-03-28 Pairs and Subsets by Jonathan Worthington (Rakudo)
- 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.)
- 2008-02-23 Perl 6 by Patrick Michaud (video)
- 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
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Perl 6 Language Design
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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 (micro-articles and more)
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
