Hej Lars, Lars (>): > I do not know Perl at all, but I'm very interested in perl6. > My problem is I do not find a good tutorial how to do real perl6 > development, all I find seems to assume you know perl5 and the perl > community. And I do not.
That's an interesting question! I guess most of the people heavily involved in Perl 6 are also quite familiar with Perl 5. Since people scratch mostly their own itches, not much "Perl 6 for newcomers". I'd recomment the "Perl 6 Programmin" wikibook, <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_6_Programming> but unfortunately it's still in its very early stages, and unfortunately its owner writes slightly unidiomatic Perl 6 code. > As an example I like to build a routine that connects to SAP and fetch data > from SAP. I know there are SAP-Perl5 routines, can those be used? how do I > find and use them? etc. > > It is even hard to find someone to ask? I would recommend that you start by visiting #perl6 on irc.freenode.net -- the people there can often provide detailed answers and help newcomers. During European daytime, it's not hard to find someone to ask. As to CPAN modules in Rakudo Perl 6 -- if that's what you're asking about -- we're not quite there yet. It'll be really sweet once we are, but I think integrating the Perl 5 and 6 runloops is fairly nontrivial. > Yeah, I know Perl6 isn't ready yet, but it looks really really good and I'm > eager to learn perl6, but not by learning perl5 first if possible. I think you represent a very important target group for Perl 6: it shouldn't be necessary to have prior knowledge of Perl 5 in order to learn Perl 6. At present, however, tutorials and documentation are sorely lacking. During the summer, we'll be fleshing out U4X, a documentation effort which aims to explain all aspects of Perl 6 to newcomers. But it's not summer yet, so the best tip I can give you is to tap the brains of the nice people over at #perl6. Regards, // Carl
