What is Perl 6?

[mandy]

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

[mandy]

A Perl 6 FAQ: http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ
Perl 6 Quick Start Guide: http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-QuickStart

Perl 6 has been six years in the making and is finally at the stage where you can try it out and begin to learn it. Whether you have questions about what has changed in Perl 6 relative to Perl 5 or are coming to Perl 6 never having looked at Perl before, we hope that this FAQ will answer some of your questions about this exciting new language