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De-duping iTunes

Posted on January 16, 2018 by brian d foy

Every so often I notice that my iTunes library has a lot of duplicate items and I need to get rid of things. It’s mostly a task for finding an […]

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Three ways to pretty print Perl 6

Posted on January 26, 2017 by brian d foy

I’ve had my head down working on the “Grammars” chapter, and along the way I’ve been using dd to look at things. It’s better than nothing, but it’s also very […]

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Search Perl 6 repos with Marchex/github-api-tools

Posted on January 4, 2017 by brian d foy

Chris Nandor has been bugging me to use the Github tools he helped to develop for Marchex, so when I posted about Hound he showed me another way to search […]

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Search the Perl 6 repos with Etsy’s Hound

Posted on January 3, 2017 by brian d foy

Hound photo by Jen on Flickr I’m working on Learning Perl 6 and I spend a lot of my time going between repos to suss out various things. Etsy’s Hound […]

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Translating the perlfaq to Perl 6

Posted on December 19, 2016 by brian d foy

I started a GitHub project to translate the Perl 5 perlfaq to Perl 6. For years I maintained those documents so they are a bit special to me. Sadly, the […]

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Experiment in the Perl 6 REPL

Posted on October 15, 2016 by brian d foy

Perl 6 has a REPL. That’s a tiny, language-specific shell that Reads a line, Evaluates it, Prints the result, and Loops to do it again. It can remember the previous […]

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Don’t install over your existing Perl 6

Posted on February 6, 2016 by brian d foy

When you want to install a new Perl 6 (or any of its backend stuff), don’t install over what you already have working. The language and the tools aren’t stable […]

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Perl 6 modulinos are even easier

Posted on January 10, 2016 by brian d foy

Perl 6 has this wonderful thing called MAIN which is a built-in modulino thingy. In my excellent number hobby (which I started writing about in Mastering Perl even after I […]

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Raku or Perl 6?

Raku used to be called Perl 6, but changed its name in October 2019. You’ll see both names here, and I’m working on updating the title of the paper book.

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Many resources have not changed the name from Perl 6 to Raku, so these resources may use either.

Raku Design Docs (dated)
Raku Docs
Learn Perl 6 in Y Minutes
Raku modules
Rosetta Code examples
Project Euler examples
Perl 6 Examples
Raku Roast (test suite examples)

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