I rewrote my DOS pattern matching in Perl 6. There’s nothing particularly fancy here and I tried to keep it close to the version I wrote in Perl 5 and […]
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Perl 6 Examples
In the early days of Perl 6 we don’t have a library of reliable books, mostly because the language had shifted so rapidly. But, there are plenty of examples of […]
Read moreDon’t install over your existing Perl 6
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 […]
Read moreTopaz is still on SourceForge
Topaz, which was almost the next version of Perl in 2000, is still in Sourceforge. Chip Salzenberg had a hunch that rewriting Perl’s guts in C++ would be the thing […]
Read moreA Perl 6 BBEdit Codeless Language Module
Now I have rudimentary Perl 6 syntax coloring for BBEdit, my long-preferred editor on the Mac for years. I don’t need anything fancy, so I did the minimum to color […]
Read morePerl 6 modulinos are even easier
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 […]
Read morePerl 6 at a Glance, by Andrew Shitov
Andrew Shitov’s Perl 6 at a Glance is already shipping out books. I haven’t had a chance to read it myself, but from the excerpts on the website this looks […]
Read moreRestrain return values
The utility of Perl 6 (or any language) is something that I can’t already do. When people ask me if they should use Perl 6 (or even regular Perl), I […]
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