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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: 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]