[Purdue-pm] Perl 6
Mark Senn
mark at purdue.edu
Mon Feb 6 05:37:04 PST 2017
(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
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