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On 9/8/10, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > "Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6" > > "Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" -- Mark Twain > > Curious what the Perl community has been up to lately? Come see Perl > 6's recent preview release. > > Since July, Perl Mongers groups around the world are doing demo nights > to build and exercise Rakudo Star. Boston.PM's turn is September > 14th, MIT E51-376 7:30pm (refreshments in hallway at 7). {This is the > night before BLU's PGP night, second Tuesday is as late as it gets > this month.} We'll install it and show what it can do. We may discuss > what more the final release candidate will do, and if enough > non-regulars turn up, we can discuss what's in 5.12 that's not in the > 5.8.4 or older that's still on many commercial Unix systems. > > RSVP for count encouraged (so our kind refreshments sponsors CIDC > know) but not required, > to me [email protected] or Boston-PM list. (If you have favorite > snippets of Perl6 code to share, send them too) > > Directions - http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections > > -- > Bill Ricker, Boston.pm facilitator http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ > [email protected] > [*] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html > > ==================== > > > Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of > Perl 6 > Submitted by pmichaud on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 05:18 > > On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to > announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable > distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is > available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads. > > Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it > still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there > are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that > aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also > proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and > exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to > make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 > codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 > language and Rakudo's implementation of it. > > In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl > 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo > Perl". "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes release #31 of > the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1 http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo], > version 2.6.0 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2 http://parrot.org/], > and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from > the Perl 6 community. We plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a > monthly schedule, with occasional special releases in response to > important bugfixes or changes. > > Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this > release of Rakudo Star: > > * Perl 6 grammars and regexes > * formal parameter lists and signatures > * metaoperators > * gradual typing > * a powerful object model, including roles and classes > * lazy list evaluation > * multiple dispatch > * smart matching > * junctions and autothreading > * operator overloading (limited forms for now) > * introspection > * currying > * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types > * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop > * Unicode at the codepoint level > * resumable exceptions > > There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet > handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. > Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" > release. ... > [read more] http://rakudo.org/node/75 announcement > (1) http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo > (2) http://parrot.org/ > -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
