[Purdue-pm] liking Perl 6

[Mark Senn]

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