See you there -F Bill Ricker wrote: > In Mass this Tuesday is Primary Election day too. Polls will close > during the meeting so allow time to vote earlier in the day. > > 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/ >> > >
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