"What is Perl 6?" Article Available

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January 16, 2006

Posted: 2006-01-16 23:18:00

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perl.com is running an article entitled "What is Perl 6?", by chromatic.

It outlines the need for Perl 6, as well as how Perl 6 will help deal with the problems of Perl 5. Also covered are some of the new language features that Perl 5 does not offer, including multimethods, coroutines, continuations, hyperoperators, macros, module aliasing and versioning, plus more. The article also discusses the role of Parrot, as well as the object-oriented and regular expression-related improvements of Perl 6. Finally, there is some discussion of why the development of Perl 6 is taking so long, in addition to some useful links and resources.

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