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On 9/8/10, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com> 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 bill.n1...@gmail.com 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/
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> [*] 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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Bill
n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com
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