01-17-2006, 08:21 AM
Quote:Perl 6 is the long-awaited redesign and reimplementation of the popular and venerable Perl programming language. It's not out yet--nor is there an official release date--but the design and implementations make continual progress.
Advantages of Perl 6
In exchange for breaking backwards compatibility, at least at the language level, Perl 6 offers plenty of high-powered language concepts that Perl 5 didn't support, including:
* Multimethods
* Coroutines
* Continuations
* Useful threading
* Junctions
* Roles
* Hyperoperators
* Macros
* An overridable and reusable grammar
* Garbage collection
* Improved foreign function interface
* Module aliasing and versioning
* Improved introspection
* Extensible and overridable primitives
full article: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/wha...tml?page=1