Yet another Perl 6 post? Yup, but here I'm going to throw out a bunch of links and request that you do the same back to me.

Information is a very non-linear thing; books, on the other hand, are. So, in order to fully understand material and cross-references, I often read and re-read the same thing over and over again, picking up more and more each time through. In an abuse of scientific terminology, I like to call this passive diffusion, because I do not actively try to pick up everything I can each time through. Instead, I pick up bits and pieces that I find interesting and notice connections that I didn't see the previous time. When I was in grade school, I read Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in this way. For Perl 5, I would read the manpages similarly. So along comes Perl 6.

Where do other people go in order to catch up on Perl 6 developments without actually installing anything? (I have installed stuff and played around with it, though.) In order to get my fix, I read through the Perl 6 list summaries (and here's the latest summary, since it doesn't seem to be linked) by Matt Fowles and Piers Cawley. I've read the Apocalypses (some of them several times through), Exegeses, and Synopses. Unfortunately, I've only been able to peek at Perl6::Bible a little so far.

"Back when I had time," I was very interested in Parrot and would read Dan Sugalski's blog religiously (some people today noted that he has a very unfortunate entry today and seems upset about recent development). I also loved his "What the heck is ..." series, where I learned about multimethod dispatch (which I still don't really understand), continuations

and more about garbage collection than I ever thought I would want to know.

Then along came Pugs and I've still been struggling to keep up. I sneak a peak at Autrijus's journal sometimes but haven't read too much there yet. But there's got to be more resources. What sites do you recommend?

In reply to Perl 6 through diffusion by kaif

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