Jan 4, 2018 by David Farrell

Classic articles from Perl.com’s archive

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Oct 16, 2017 by David Farrell

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

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Sep 22, 2015 by David Farrell

Four tricks to get the highlighting you want

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Jun 9, 2015 by David Farrell

The ubiquitous test runner is a powerful tool for your arsenal

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Apr 30, 2015 by David Farrell

Grammars, action classes, code!

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Nov 20, 2014 by David Farrell

One liners in Perl are better than ever

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Nov 18, 2014 by Sinan Unur

Compiling Rakudo on Windows is easier than you think

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May 22, 2014 by David Farrell

A step by step guide to porting exercises

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Aug 31, 2010 by chromatic

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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Aug 11, 2010 by chromatic

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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Jul 29, 2010 by chromatic

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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Dec 6, 2007 by Larry Wall

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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May 10, 2007 by Jonathan Scott Duff

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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Mar 1, 2007 by Phil Crow

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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Sep 21, 2006 by Larry Wall

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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Jan 12, 2006 by chromatic

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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Sep 22, 2005 by Larry Wall

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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Aug 25, 2005 by Matt Fowles

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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Aug 18, 2005 by Piers Cawley

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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Aug 11, 2005 by Matt Fowles

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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