Perl 6 Synopsis 5

XaXXon writes: "perl.com has Synopsis 5 for Perl 6 up. It's a brief overview of all the changes made in Larry Wall's Apocalypse 5. Lots of stuff about the new regex syntax. I must admit, however, that I'm getting tired of reading about perl 6 -- I want to start using it." We posted Larry Wall's 5th Apocalypse in May.

So why don't you?

[JoshuaDFranklin]

I must admit, however, that I'm getting tired of reading about perl 6 -- I want to start using it.

Well, go right ahead. From the Parrot VM, the Perl6 engine, page [parrotcode.org]:

Can I use Parrot today?

Well, almost. :^) Parrot is in the early phases of its implementation. The primary way to use Parrot is to write Parrot assembly code, described in PDD6.

Use Perl6--Write some Parrot assembly, and help out!

Re:Rename it, it isn't Perl anymore

[m_ilya]

It is still Perl. It is just better Perl :)

If in doubt go and read article ...And Now for Something Completely Similar [samag.com] by Damian Conway.

I' also getting tired of reading about Perl6

[porky_pig_jr]

and I'm about to drop it altogether - both 5 and 6. Franky, coding Perl can be fun, but maintaining and debugging the code written by somebody else - isn't. THis is the implication of having the language with 'the same thing can be done in a 1000 different ways' and the language whose design mostly depends on Larry's whims - and remember that Larry is a linguist by education, and apparently he has somewhat limited understanding of all the issues concerning the 'production quality' language. So - I'll be taking a closer look to apparently minimalistic and restricted Python. Cheers.