Perl 6

2009-07-11 post perl perl6 coolnamehere

This page once contained many links to Perl 6 information as the design notes were being assembled for the newest revision of this language. Those links are painfully out of date now. I’ll streamline instead with a few core ideas:

There may be multiple implementations of Perl 6, but the accepted standard is Raku.
Rakudo runs on the virtual machine known as Parrot. Parrot runs more than just Perl 6, though. There are several languages being developed for this platform.