ppluApr 2016Recommends
You can go to [link] , download it, and play with it now :) I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too: [link] ▶ this video
in “Wow, Perl 6 [video]” · View on HN
Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington
Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2015–2016.
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Jonathan Worthington's YAPC Asia 2015 talk on parallelism, concurrency and asynchrony in Perl 6. It covers the language's concurrency features.
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HN commenters offer it as a good example of what Perl 6 does well and as a way to get started with the language.
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“I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too”
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keeperofdakeysSep 2015Recommends
As someone who is relatively new to perl, I think perl 6 is definitely a positive direction. It removes lots of inconsistencies, while providing a clean base for future expansion. For something like the sigils, what's more important - to know that a variable is a scalar, or that it's some kind of hash/array? The second would definitely be less confusing when learning the language. There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6, like this ▶ this video
in “Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]” · View on HN
agumonkeyOct 2015Cites it
The typing and grammar mechanism aren't common, it may influence other languages. Also, Perl managed to survive even without mainstream relevance so the community will probably keep enjoying it. ps: I found this talk pretty convincing about pragmatism [link] also: ▶ this video
in “Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0” · View on HN
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Python, Ruby & scripting languagesProgramming language designperl 6concurrencyparallelismasynchronyjonathan worthington