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Perl 6 Deep Dive

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282049
Pages 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Shitov Andrew Shitov
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Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

1. What is Perl 6? 2. Writing Code 3. Working with Variables and Built-in Data Types 4. Working with Operators 5. Control Flow 6. Subroutines 7. Modules 8. Object-Oriented Programming 9. Input and Output 10. Working with Exceptions 11. Regexes 12. Grammars 13. Concurrent Programming 14. Functional Programming 15. Reactive Programming

What is Perl 6?

In this chapter, we will examine the reasons why Perl 6 appeared and follow the history of the development of the language. You will see some examples of changes that have happened since Perl 5, and you will learn how to download and use the compiler, where to find the documentation, and how to run your first program in Perl 6.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Origins of Perl 6
  • Differences from Perl 5
  • Perl 6 resources
  • Compilers
  • Working with Rakudo Star
  • Writing our Hello World program
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Andrew Shitov has been a Perl enthusiast since the end of the 1990s, and is the organizer of over 30 Perl conferences in eight countries. He worked as a developer and CTO in leading web-development companies, such as Art. Lebedev Studio, Booking dotCom, and eBay, and he learned from the "Fathers of the Russian Internet", Artemy Lebedev and Anton Nossik. Andrew has been following the Perl 6 development since its beginning in 2000. He ran a blog dedicated to the language, published a series of articles in the Pragmatic Perl magazine, and gives talks about Perl 6 at various Perl events. In 2017, he published the Perl 6 at a Glance book by DeepText, which was the first book on Perl 6 published after the first stable release of the language specification.
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