Perl 6 through diffusion

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?

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Re: Perl 6 through diffusion by gaal (Parson) on Jun 05, 2005 at 07:44 UTC
In the AES series, you really should focus on the Synopses; you can use the Es and As when you can't find what you're looking for, and they are more detailed, but also outdated at parts. If you want to see real live Perl 6 code (examples are always useful), take a look at the examples/ and t/ directories in the Pugs source tree, and at the modules in ext/ . t/ is very useful when you have a worry about a particular keyword or feature.	[reply]
Re: Perl 6 through diffusion by Boots111 (Hermit) on Jun 05, 2005 at 05:51 UTC
All~ We don't link the most recent summary on perl.org to give perl.com an exclusive week. O'Reilly likes this and provides more editing for the perl.com one. It seemed a little odd when I first started, but it is a decent arrangement. Boots --- Computer science is merely the post-Turing decline of formal systems theory. --??? 20050605 Edit by ysth: change </br> to <br />	[reply]
Re^2: Perl 6 through diffusion by kaif (Friar) on Jun 05, 2005 at 05:54 UTC
Sounds reasonable enough actually. In that case perl.com won't mind the extra link. Thanks for the notice.	[reply]
Re: Perl 6 through diffusion by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 05, 2005 at 13:40 UTC
kaif, There are quite a few links in Get Involved With Pugs. I would say that if you really wanted to keep up with Perl6 - the following 3 would be the best: Subscribe to the p6 language list (not just summaries) Join #perl6 on IRC (or read the Logs Read autrijus's daily journal Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^2: Perl 6 through diffusion by kaif (Friar) on Jun 05, 2005 at 18:01 UTC
I'll try doing that. I only feared subscribing to the language list because of the sheer volume. Do you find it manageable?	[reply]
Re^3: Perl 6 through diffusion by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 05, 2005 at 20:58 UTC
kaif, I got a gmail account exclusively for subscribing to mail lists. It's ability to label and auto-thread make it very manageable. If you need an invite, let me know via a /msg. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: Perl 6 through diffusion by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jun 05, 2005 at 03:44 UTC
Perl6::Bible is mainly just the Apocalypses, Exegeses, and Synopses as pod. It comes with a viewer called `p6bible`, but I prefer good old `perldoc`. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]