[Purdue-pm] Perl 6

[Mark Senn]

(The information below is based on information pointed to by
    http://perlweekly.com/archive/289.html
and other sources.)

A $42.99 partial draft of _Think Perl 6, How to Think Like a Computer
Scientist_ is out.  See
    http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920065883.do
for more info.  I'll request that Purdue Libraries add this to
    http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com/
so Purdue folks can read it for free.

Comment from me: Learning Perl 6 all at one time may be prohibitively
difficult.  I suggest using it for very easy prorams now.  It will be
easier to learn that way---it would be easy to put off learning Perl 6
and not be able to save time in the long run---my uncle still programs
in COBOL as his primary (and I think only) language other than maybe some
shell aliases.  I think Perl 6 is a much better language than Perl 5.

Perl QA Hackathon has been renamed Perl Toolchain Summut.

Rakudo Star (a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6)
is available.  See
    http://rakudo.org/2017/01/30/announce-rakudo-star-release-2017-01/
This is an easiest way to install Perl 6 on a Linux computer---I haven't
tried other opeerating systems.

YAPC::NA (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has been renamed
The Perl Conference, NA.  Call for presentations is open---deadline is
2017-03-06 (that's an ISO 8601 date for March 6).  Comment from me: I
prefer watching the talks on You Tube.  It's cheaper and more efficient
than going to the conference---overall (based on 24 hour days) the
information density of the conference is pretty low.

-mark