Just an addendum. For any that haven't seen it, Moritz Lenz has some truly fantastic blog posts that are "Perl 6 for the Perl 5 programmer". Incredibly helpful to show you how things have changed.<br><br><a href="http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/">http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/</a><br>
<br>D<br><br>--<br clear="all"><a href="mailto:dave.s.doyle@gmail.com">dave.s.doyle@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:05 PM, James E Keenan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkeen@verizon.net">jkeen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Nov 28, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Tom Legrady wrote:<br>
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Since minimally usable versions of perl6 are about to become available RealSoonNow (tm), it would be useful if someone tolerably knowledgeable would provide an introduction. I've read all the Synopses and attended a couple of Damian lectures on the topic, even bought a book, but i imagine everythign is different now.<br>
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Along these lines ... you could do a follow-up to the Parrot build fest which we did when I was in town at the end of March. In NY (Perl Seminar), we're doing an every-other-month thing where we introduce Perl 6 features which are working in the Rakudo (Parrot) implementation and have people try to execute them at the command-line. In other words, the next thing past ./perl6 -e say "Hello, world";<br>
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