On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:02:25PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
pHow do you write a book about a language that does not exist?/p
pThe short answer is that you can't. Here we have 208 pages of evidence that
Perl 6 isn't just vapourware. Sure, you can't run a Perl 6 program yet (unless
Damian's upgraded his brain to a multi-user OS)
Just to pick a nit...
The perl 6 program Cprint hello world\n; can be run under perl 5.
A bunch of what exists of perl 6 can be run under parrot.
A number of perl 6 features have been done as perl 5 modules.
Yeah, I have nothing better to do with my time. Why do you ask? :-)
dha
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