Summary

In this chapter, we looked briefly at what kind of programming language Perl 6 is and how it differs from its sister language, Perl 5. We looked at the history of Perl 6 and at different projects of the Perl 6 compilers. Finally, we installed Rakudo Star, the best compiler tool of today and created the first 'Hello, World!' program.

In the following chapter, we will look at how to organize the code in the program.