I'm getting a bit confused!
Yesterday i wanted to get a start to try installing Perl6, so i went to the
perl6 page.
Then i wanted to download perl6, but i did not find a clear way to do it.
there is talk about
parrot, the
Virtual machine designed to execute bytecode for interpreted languages efficiently. Parrot will be the target for the Perl 6 compiler. There is already a partial Perl 6 compiler as well as compilers in various stages of completion for a wide range of other languages.
But no link to downloading Perl6 itself,
Then there is
Pugs.
An implementation of Perl 6, written in Haskell. It aims to implement the full Perl6 specification, as detailed in the Synopses. For more information, please see the overview and this interview.
Then i looked at the
faq, but no section about 'getting Perl6' there...
Is Perl6 just not yet available, should i just use Pugs?, am i missing something? (i'd really like to try perl6), or should i use Parrot and Pugs together?
Please point me in the right direction.
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