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Hidden Gems of Perl.com

Jan 4, 2018 by David Farrell

perldotcom
hidden-gems
state-of-the-onion
perlguts
perl-style
perl-internals
perl-6

Classic articles from Perl.com’s archive

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Larry Wall interviewed in San Francisco

Oct 16, 2017 by David Farrell

community
larry-wall
interview
infoq
erlang
elixir
perl-6

Larry was interviewed in San Francisco at Erlang & Elixir Factory SF Bay Area 2017 conference

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Activating Perl 6 syntax highlighting in Vim

Sep 22, 2015 by David Farrell

tooling
config
perl-6
productivity
vim
vimscript

Four tricks to get the highlighting you want

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Get to grips with Prove, Perl's test workhorse

Jun 9, 2015 by David Farrell

testing
perl-6
test
prove
cheet_sheet
test-anything-protocol

The ubiquitous test runner is a powerful tool for your arsenal

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Parsing Perl 5 pod with Perl 6

Apr 30, 2015 by David Farrell

perl-6
pod
perl-6
grammar
pegex
parser

Grammars, action classes, code!

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Get started with Perl 6 one liners

Nov 20, 2014 by David Farrell

perl-6
windows
one_liner
perl
terminal
command_line
perl-6
rakudo

One liners in Perl are better than ever

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Building Perl 6 with Visual Studio 2013

Nov 18, 2014 by Sinan Unur

perl-6
windows
perl-6
rakudo
star
visual_studio_2013
visual_studio_2015

Compiling Rakudo on Windows is easier than you think

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How to contribute to the exercism.io Perl 5 repo

May 22, 2014 by David Farrell

community
community
github
open_source
perl-5
perl-6
exercism_io

A step by step guide to porting exercises

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People of Perl 6: Carl Mäsak

Aug 31, 2010 by chromatic

perl-6
interview
perl
perl-6
rakudo

Carl Mäsak is a developer of Rakudo Perl 6 and arguably the most dedicated bug wrangler. He’s contributed to more bug reports than anyone else. If you find that Rakudo does not do as you expect, you’ll likely talk to him on #perl6 for help triaging and categorizing your bug.

In his own words, here’s how he’s helped make Perl 6 real.

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People of Perl 6: Jonathan Worthington

Aug 11, 2010 by chromatic

perl-6
interview
perl-6

Jonathan Worthington is one of the lead developers of Rakudo Perl 6. In this interview he discusses the project, its future, and what to expect from this exciting new language.

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Welcome Rakudo Star

Jul 29, 2010 by chromatic

perl-6
announcements
perl
perl-5
perl-6
rakudo

The first Rakudo Star release is out, making Perl 6 available to a wider range of users. Welcome to the new era of Perl.

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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...

Dec 6, 2007 by Larry Wall

development
language-design
larry-wall
perl-5
perl-6
programming-languages
scripting
scripting-languages
state-of-the-onion
worse-is-better

I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can’t define it, but I’ll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating around: Simple language “Everything is a string” Rapid prototyping Glue…

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Everyday Perl 6

May 10, 2007 by Jonathan Scott Duff

perl-6
parrot
perl-5
perl-6
pugs

Perl 6 will soon be here. How will programming in Perl 6 be different from programming in Perl 5 for your average Perl programmer? The answer is: very different yet very much the same. A Perl 6 program viewed…

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The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing

Mar 1, 2007 by Phil Crow

perl-6
exegeses
parameter-passing
parrot
perl
perl-6
pugs
subroutines
synopses

Perl 6 is not finished, but you can already play with it. I hope this article will encourage you to try it. Begin by installing Pugs, a Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell. Note that you will also need…

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The State of the Onion 10

Sep 21, 2006 by Larry Wall

community
larryisms
perl-5
perl-6
perl-6-on-perl-5
perl-humor
perl-status
state-of-the-onion

Welcome to the tenth State of the Perl Onion. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my methods, this is the annual speech wherein I ramble on about various things that are only marginally related to the state…

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What Is Perl 6

Jan 12, 2006 by chromatic

perl-6
language-design
parrot
perl
perl-6
perl-design
ponie
programming-languages
pugs

In the sixth year of Perl 6’s multi-year reinvention, some of its developers reflected on why it was taking so long.

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The State of the Onion 9

Sep 22, 2005 by Larry Wall

community
larryisms
perl-6
perl-humor
perl-programmers
perl-spies
perl-status
state-of-the-onion

For the last couple of years, we’ve been homeschooling our two youngest kids. Gloria has been making sure they learn the easy subjects like history and mathematics. I’ve been making sure they also learn the hard subjects like, um,…

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This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005

Aug 25, 2005 by Matt Fowles

perl-6
compiler
internals
parrot
perl-6
pugs
vm-development

All- Welcome to another Monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that Mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, so perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language first and…

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This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005

Aug 18, 2005 by Piers Cawley

perl-6
compiler
internals
parrot
perl-6
pge
pugs
vm-development

As you will note from the date in the title, it’s been a short week. We’re switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the Perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being…

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This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005

Aug 11, 2005 by Matt Fowles

perl-6
compiler
internals
parrot
perl-6
pugs
vm-development

All- Welcome to another summary, brought to you by Chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that…

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