Hi all: PERL 6 is available for the discerning programmer and a compiler bootstrapped with PERL 6 will be available in future.
PERL or Practical Extraction and Reporting Language was invented 20 years ago by Larry Wall, a student of linguistics. Thats a long time for a language to hold the attention of the audience and prove its usefulness many times over. Just ask any system administrator or an engineer working on automation how neat PERL is. One of the key aspects of PERL design is 'there is more than one way to do it' and thatswhy it is used extensively in different domains. PERL is modelled on human languages. Human languages are complex ! Larry Wall talks about 'Diligence, Patience and Humility' in his essay http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/larry.html For more background material, please see Overview of PERL 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6 What is PERL 6 http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/970 Over of PERL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl About Larry Wall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall PERL started the trend for hacker designed languages today lead by Ruby, Lua and now Arc. Have a nice day ! -- thanks Saifi.
