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Perl 6 was officially released in source form for the Rakudo compiler on Christmas Day 2015 as promised in the old "ready by Christmas" joke. But for most people the most usable form is Rakudo Star (which includes docs and some batteries in the shape of library modules) and this was released earlier in this month.
Yesterday the first Mac installer was released alongside the existing Windows MSI. UNIX users can install from the rakudo-star-2016.01.tar.gz source tarball.
Full details at http://www.perl6.org/downloads/
So now is a good time to try out this radical new reboot of perl into a different but related language if you are interested in programming languages. The classic version (perl 5) powers Soylentnews and is, of course, still widely used.
There are some nice examples at the homepage http://www.perl6.org/
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 15 2016, @10:29AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 15 2016, @12:25PM
Something like, yep.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @12:41PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:17PM
To be fair, you always could [metacpan.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:27PM
oops, just noticed you said Perl6 and I linked to a Perl5 thing. Nevermind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:36PM
Now the question is: Do we raise an exception? Or do we push a "cleanup" function reference into the reclamation stack which reports an error?
There's always more than one way to do everything in Perl.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:25PM
There's Niecza [github.com] which is a Perl 6 compiler written in C# that targets Microsoft's CLR. Sadly, it doesn't look like an active project anymore. I use PowerShell on some servers at work and it'll let you use C# code and classes in PowerShell scripts. I'd love to be able to do the same thing with Perl 6 from within PowerShell.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday February 15 2016, @11:21AM
Raduko still does not support goto. [perl6.org] Clearly it is completely unusable for any Real Programmer! ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @11:28AM
Demonstrating the importance of goto [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @04:32PM
Raduko still does not support goto. Clearly it is completely unusable for any Real Programmer! ;-)
If by programmer you mean system level programmer or language designer, then yes, it is unsuitable for Real Programmers -- which are the only kind of programmers that actually exist. Everyone else are just code monkeys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @06:56PM
I use gotos quite frequently, after a fashion.
Around here, we call them "jump" instructions, and in the x86 instruction set I believe the opcodes all start with '7' (70, 71...7A, etc). Why so many? There are several varieties, based on different comparison operations
Believe it or not, you can actually write good code that uses them.
Read more.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Disassembly/Branches [wikibooks.org]