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Can anyone recommend a good book on Perl 6? Are there any (even bad ones)? Right now I feel the major reason that keeps me from investing time in Perl 6 - besi

by krylon 9y ago

Can anyone recommend a good book on Perl 6? Are there any (even bad ones)? Right now I feel the major reason that keeps me from investing time in Perl 6 - besides adoption by distros - is the lack of a good book, like the Lama and the Camel book for Perl 5. It's kind of frustrating after having waited so long.

totalperspectiv 9y ago
This one is 'in progress' https://www.learningperl6.com/ https://www.learningperl6.com/ Looking at the Perl 6 website, there are a few more coming along as well. https://perl6.org/resources/ https://perl6.org/resources/
- krylon 9y ago
  Nice, thank you very much!
- cutler 9y ago
  ... but nothing from Larry Wall. I don't get it. Perl 6 without a "Programming Perl 6" (O'Reilly or Pragmatic) will just delay adoption.
sigzero 9y ago
http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/ http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/
perlgeek 9y ago
https://perl6book.com/ https://perl6book.com/ gives an overview of Perl 6 books, and how they differ. Enjoy!
krylon 9y ago
To all who answered: Thank you very, very much!!!
_delirium 9y ago
> adoption by distros This has improved, and I think most distros now ship Rakudo (Perl6 on MoarVM). At least: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch do.
- krylon 9y ago
  I just checked on my desktop (openSUSE Tubmleweed) - it has both MoarVM and Rakudo. Fun times lie ahead! :-)
- cestith 9y ago
  CentOS 7 has a package for it if you enable the EPEL repo.
throwaway7645 9y ago
Think Perl6 is already out and free to download...very well written!
- b2gills 9y ago
  Perl 6 is the spec tests, and is open-source Rakudo is the only currently supported implementation (ignoring several specialized partial implementations), it is also open-source.