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You're reading from Perl 6 Deep Dive Data manipulation, concurrency, functional programming, and more

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787282049

Length 402 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Perl

Tools

Rakudo Perl

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Andrew Shitov

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

1. What is Perl 6? FREE CHAPTER

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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Publisher: Packt

ISBN-13: 9781787282049

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Authors (1)

Shitov

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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