Interfacing with other languages

We are not limited to just Perl. For any scripting language that has a command-line option and can process standard input, streaming it to standard output will do.

Next are three examples which use a command line scripting approach.

Perl 6

Perl 6 is now considered a new and separate language from Perl5; some see it as a reason for the decline in the latter since the syntax of the two differs markedly in some places. Perl 6, unlike Perl, is not distributed as a standard.

The favorite distribution for Perl 6 can be obtained from https://rakudo.org.

It is necessary to be able to “find” Perl 6; the command we saw earlier is a convenient method to set up a symbolic link to the binary and put it in a folder on the excuse path (on OS X, my link is perl6 -> /Applications/Rakudo/bin/perl6, and I put it in my '$HOME/bin' folder):

# Check that perl6 is available
julia> run(`which perl6`);
/usr/local/bin/perl6

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