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stmuk [soylentnews.org] writes:

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/ [perl6.org]

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, of course, powers Soylentnews and still widely used.

There are some nice examples at the homepage http://www.perl6.org/ [perl6.org]

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