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We've expanded our Perl news coverage and improved our search! Search for all things Perl across O'Reilly! Allison Randal Allison Randal's first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. Working with minority languages led to a series of academic papers delivered in obscure places like the Czech Republic. But eventually her love of coding seduced her away from natural languages to artificial ones. In particular, to Perl. After serving several tours of duty in the dot.com trenches, she has recently returned to Darkest Academia, at the University of Portland. In her spare time she enjoys extreme sports: teaching Perl to Java programmers, Perl Monger wrangling, and debating linguistics with Larry and Damian. Perl 6 Design Philosophy Perl 6 Essentials is the first book to offer a peek into the next major version of the Perl language. In this excerpt from Chapter 3 of the book, the authors take an in-depth look of some of the most important principles of natural language and their impact on the design decisions made in Perl 6. [Jun 25, 2003] Synopsis 6 Damian Conway and Allison Randal bring you a handy summary of the Perl 6 subroutine and type system, as described in last month's Apocalypse. [Apr 9, 2003] On Topic Allison Randal explains the seemingly strange concept of "topic" in Perl 6 - and finds that it's alive and well in Perl 5 too... [Oct 30, 2002] Synopsis 5 Confused by the last Apocalypse? Allison Randal and Damian Conway explain the changes in a more succinct form. [Jun 26, 2002] |
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