[Purdue-pm] liking Perl 6

[Phillip San Miguel]

Hi Mark,
     Glad to hear that you and Perl 6 have patched up your off-again, 
on-again, relationship. I think we could tell from the beginning that 
you were destined to be together in the end.
Regards,
Phillip

On 9/11/2014 9:19 AM, Mark Senn wrote:
> Purdue Perl Mongers,
>
> I've been using Perl 6 and like it much better than Perl 5.
>
> Perl 6 is a complete redesign and rewrite of Perl 5.
> Programming in Perl 6 still "feels like" programming in Perl 5.
>
> It would be unrealistic for me to learn all of Perl 6 proficiently soon
> after it is ready for production so I'm getting familar with it now by
> reading about Perl 6 and writing small, simple programs that don't need
> any currently unimplemented Perl 6 modules.
>
> The following is excerpted from a message by Kamil Kułaga
> about how to get started learning Perl 6:
>
>      I propose to start:
>           http://perlgeek.de/en/article/5-to-6 to know biggest differences
>
>      then:
>           http://doc.perl6.org/language.html and of course rest of
>      http://doc.perl6.org/
>
>      If you want something really verbose http://perlcabal.org/syn/ Even
>      though it is mainly targeted to compiler authors it great because is
>      the most complete
>
>      Also http://perl6.org contains link to other resources
>
>      I hope didn't write to much for a first time
>
> The Rakudo implementation of Perl 6 doesn't have all Perl 6 features.
> Only a tiny fraction of Perl 5 modules have been implemented in Perl 6.
> There is more new stuff in Perl 6 than there is all stuff in Perl 5
> so my advice is start getting familiar with Perl 6 now.
>
> To do the best work use the sharpest tools.
>
> -mark
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