Everyday Perl 6
Perl 6 will soon be here. How will programming in Perl 6 be different from programming in Perl 5 for your average Perl programmer? The answer is: very different yet very much the same. A Perl 6 program viewed…
The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing
Perl 6 is not finished, but you can already play with it. I hope this article will encourage you to try it. Begin by installing Pugs, a Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell. Note that you will also need…
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What Is Perl 6
In the sixth year of Perl 6’s multi-year reinvention, some of its developers reflected on why it was taking so long.
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This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
All- Welcome to another Monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that Mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, so perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language first and…
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This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005
As you will note from the date in the title, it’s been a short week. We’re switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the Perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being…
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This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005
All- Welcome to another summary, brought to you by Chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that…
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This Week in Perl 6, through August 2, 2005
In case you were wondering, Darwin ports didn’t work its magic and I still don’t have a working Haskell compiler. Thank Juerd for feather, even if I did have to turn my laptop upside down to read the MOTD….
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Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6
Pugs let real people write real Perl 6 code. This article presents a case study of porting Perl’s venerable Test::Builder to Perl 6.
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This Week in Perl 6, July 20-26, 2005
All- Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by microwaved Chinese food and air conditioning. I love the modern era. Without further ado, I bring you: Perl 6 Compilers PxPerl Grégoire Péan announced the release of PxPerl…
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This Week in Perl 6, July 13-19, 2005
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by the words "displacement" and "activity." So far today, I’ve caught up with everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing list I’m subscribed to, and completed about…
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This Week in Perl 6, July 5-12, 2005
All- Welcome to another summary from the frog house, a house so green you can see it from outer space (according to Google Earth). Perl 6 Compiler Building Pugs Workaround Sam Vilain posted a useful workaround to the error…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 29-July 5, 2005
My, doesn’t time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to write. It’s a hard life, I tell you! This Week in perl6-compiler Where’s Everyone Gone? It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development discussions occur at…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 21-28, 2005
All- Long time no see … err, write … uh, read … um … this. Yeah, long time no this. As Piers hinted, two weeks ago I moved. Moving sucks. For those of you who care, I am still…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 8-21, 2005
Surprise! It’s me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week’s summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I’m not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week…
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This Week in Perl 6, June 1-7, 2005
Crumbs. I’ve remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can just remember to bill O’Reilly for, err, 2003’s summaries. Heck, it’s not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off. Ah well, no…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 25, 2005-May 31, 2005
All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya’s new friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler. Perl 6 Compiler Method Chaining Alex…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 18 - 24, 2005
Note to self: It’s generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It’s especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn’t completely and utterly radish your Postfix…
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This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005
All~ Welcome ot another fortnight’s summary. Wouldn’t it just figure that I can’t think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself. Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic’s cummingesque capitalization. Maybe I should start one…
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This Week in Perl 6, April 26 - May 3, 2005
All, Welcome to another week’s summary. This week I shall endeavor not to delete my summary accidentally or destroy the world. Here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers Implicit $_ on for Loops Kiran Kumar found a bug…
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This Week in Perl 6, April 20 - 26, 2005
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 2005-04-26 It’s my turn again. What fun. “What,” I hear you all ask, “has been going on in the crazy, mixed-up world of Perl 6 design and development?” Read this summary…
