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 searches 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 searches for recent articles above for more results.

Follow this example's general format for listing items (with the title linked to the item's URL):

• 2099-12-25 Happy 1st Birthday, Perl 7! by Very Lucky Author (Useful additional notes here, PDF head's up, etc.)

Add items here, putting the most recent items first.

• ...
• 2009-02-08 Shimming for testing Perl 6 code released to CPAN by Gábor Szabó
• 2009-02-07 Should Perl 6 use the CPAN? by Andy Lester
• 2009-02-07 Where Rakudo Lives Now by Moritz Lenz
• 2009-01-17 Parametric Roles by Jonathan Worthington
• 2009-01-15 Leaving the Parrot nest [Issues related to reorganizing Rakudo-related repositories and web sites] by Patrick Michaud
• 2009-01-13 Perl 6 Microgrant: Andrew Whitworth [to write a Perl 6 book for Wikibooks] by Leon Brocard (aka acme)
• 2009-01-12 How to get a commit bit for Perl 6 (ln -s) [it's easy -- help just hack a test case] by Ovid
• 2009-01-12 Getting Started with Perl 6 by Gábor Szabó
• 2009-10-10 Perl 6 syntax highlighting [in Padre] by Gábor Szabó
• 2009-01-07 Stuff I've been doing [Parrot progress, upcoming talks] by Jonathan Worthington
• 2009-01-06 Perl 6 Tidings from January 2009 by Moritz Lenz
• 2009-01-05 How to get a parse tree for a Perl 6 Program by Moritz Lenz
• 2009-01-05 Parrot Speaks Your Language by Stephen Weeks
• 2009-01-04 Revolution or Obscurity [Perl 5 lives, Perl 6 is real] by chromatic
• 2009-01-04 A farewell to ideas [patterns, shortest path] by Carl Masak
• 2009-01-04 mod_parrot 0.5 by Jeff Horwitz
• 2009-01-03 A Perl one-liner grows up by Carl Masak
• 2009-01-02 List of working and non-working Rakudo features by Patrick Michaud
• 2009-01-01 "Vanilla Perl 6 (the "other Sekrit) abandoned for now by Alias
• 2009-01-01 Perl 6 Cookbook by Gábor Szabó
• 2008-12-31 Hangman in Perl 6 by Ovid
• 2008-12-30 Scripters, now is the time! by Carl Masak
• 2008-12-29 The care and feeding of S29 by Carl Masak
• 2008-12-29 Syntax highlighting for Perl 6 by Gábor Szabó
• 2008-12-25 mod_parrot HLL Module Developer's Guide by Jeff Horwitz
• 2008-12-23 Perl 6 Scripting Games by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-12-22 Two days. 562 new passing tests by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-12-20 Fun with code blocks in Perl 6 by Carl Masak
• 2008-12-17 Rakudo Day: Fixes and features by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-12-16 Perl 6 - Given/When by Stephen Weeks
• 2008-12-15 Non-fatal exceptions by Stephen Weeks
• 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 Plans for Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo by Gábor Szabó
• 2008-12-11 rakudo spec test coverage chart by Jerry Gay
• 2008-12-11 Exception Handlers in HLLs by Stephen Weeks
• 2008-12-11 Planning for my Hague Grant by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-12-11 Final Report on DeepText Multi-Dispatch Grant by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-12-11 Currying in Perl 6 by Stephen Weeks
• 2008-12-10 ;; works, making illegal things illegal by Jonathan Worthington
• 2008-12-10 Grant accepted for Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo by Gábor Szabó
• 2008-12-10 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... by Patrick Michaud
• 2008-12-09 Parrot development speed 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

List of articles and presentations, most recent first (Archive)

Due to the greatly increased number of new items, items older than a few months are moved here:

• Perl 6 Articles and Presentations (Archive)

Categorized Articles and Presentations

Grants and Support

Moved to Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters.

Perl 6 Language Design

Larry Wall's Presentations

• Larry Wall's Talks
• State of the Onion

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)

• 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