Perl Resource Center: Perl 6 Articles

Perl 6 Articles

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html

Article: "What is Perl 6?"

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cpregex.html

Article: "Cultured Perl: Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions—Comparing the Perl 6 Grammars and Regular Expressions with the Perl 5 Parse::RecDescent Module," by Teodor Zlatanov.

"Larry Wall on Perl 6"

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=189

Article: "Larry Wall on Perl 6" Larry Wall discusses what excites him most about Perl 6 and addresses why many developers might not make the transition from Perl 5.8 to Perl 6.

"Critique of Where Perl 6 is Heading"

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1339/

Article: "Critique of Where Perl 6 is Heading" by Shlomi Fish. Provides on overview of Perl 6, the benefits of Perl 5 and the drawbacks of Perl 6.

"Apocalypse 12: Objects"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A12.html

Article: "Apocalypse 12: Objects" by Larry Wall.

"Exegesis 7: Formats"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E07.html

Article: "Exegesis 7: Formats" by Damian Conway. Expands on Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 7." Compares formats in Perl 5 vs. Perl 6.

"Apocalypse 6: Formats"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A06.html#Apocalypse_7:_Formats

Article: "Apocalypse 6: Formats" by Larry Wall.

"Exegesis 6: Subroutines"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E06.html

Article: "Exegesis 6: Subroutines" by Damian Conway. Expands on Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 6." Discusses the increased flexibility and power of subroutines in Perl 6.

"Apocalypse 6: Subroutines"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A06.html

Article: "Apocalypse 6: Subroutines" by Larry Wall. Discusses the use of alternate keywords to declare special subroutines in Perl 6.

"Exegesis 5: Pattern Matching"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E05.html

Article: "Exegesis 5: Pattern Matching" by Damian Conway. Expands on Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 5."

"Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A05.html

Article: "Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching" by Larry Wall, discusses regular expressions.

"Exegesis 4: Syntax"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E04.html

Article: "Exegesis 4: Syntax" by Damian Conway. Addresses Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 4." Discusses fully operational control structures, exceptions, lexical exceptions and more.

"Apocalypse 4: Syntax"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A04.html

Article: "Apocalypse 4: Syntax" by Larry Wall. Discusses the changes to block and flow control.

"Exegesis 3: Operators"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E03.html

Article: "Exegesis 3: Operators" by Damian Conway. Addresses Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 3." Discusses the few new operators in Perl 6.

"Apocalypse 3: Operators"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A03.html

Article: "Apocalypse 3: Operators" by Larry Wall, discusses the design of operators in Perl 6. RFCs covered include data types (lazy lists), operators (multiway comparisons, polymorphic comparisons), adding a print operator, list generation functions, arrays (applying operators element-wise in a list context), backtracking, eliminating the =~ operator and more.

"Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E02.html

Article: "Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces" by Damian Conway. Addresses Larry Wall's "Apocalypse 2." Demonstrates the new Perl 6 syntax and semantics by walking you through a Perl 6 program.

"Apocalypse 2: Bits and Pieces"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A02.html

Article: "Apocalypse 2: Bits and Pieces" by Larry Wall. Covers RFCs related to comments, types, variables, strings, files, lists and more.

"Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good"

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A01.html

Article: "Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good" by Larry Wall. Explains the reasoning behind his series of "Apocalypse" articles which reveal the beginning design of Perl 6. This first article covers RFCs (request for changes) including keeping default Perl free of constraints (e.g., warnings and strict), named operators vs. functions, returning objects from all Perl core functions and making this the last major revision to Perl. Includes code examples.

"Algorithm::TokenBucket"

http://www.annocpan.org/~AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.11/ext/Algorithm-TokenBucket/lib/Algorithm/TokenBucket.pm

"Algorithm::TokenBucket—Token Bucket Rate Limiting Algorithm" by Ingo Blechschmidt and Alex Kapranoff. A description of the algorithm and examples.

Perl 6 Debugging and AST

http://www.annocpan.org/~AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.11/docs/AES/A20draft.pod

Shows what debugging and AST introspection hooks might look like in Perl 6.

"10,000 ft. View of the Perl 6 MetaModel (2.0)"

http://www.annocpan.org/~AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Pugs-6.2.11/perl5/Perl6-MetaModel/docs/10_000_ft-view.pod

"10,000 ft. View of the Perl 6 MetaModel (2.0)" by Stevan Little. Describes the MetaModel 2.0 and the bootstrapping process.