Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion talk at OSCON foreshadows the long-awaited release of Perl 6 In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON ...

With more people trying Perl 6, the Perl team is hoping that it will expand the community and possibly even create more Perl 6 developers. So until Christmas, in preparation of the big release ...

The GitHub community has been divided over the programming language Perl. The issue is that “‘Perl’ in the name ‘Perl 6’ is confusing and irritating.” According to the Perl team, the ...

Perl 6 has been in development even longer than Debian Sarge -- Larry Wall was talking about Perl 6 back in 2000, after all -- and some folks are curious if it's ever going to see completion.

“Perl 6 could bring on a bloody revolution, or it could be a delightful step forward. You folks in the room will have to decide how violent or peaceful the future will be,” he said.

Perl 6 will recognize and execute Perl 5 code, but it will also open new doors to developers with features including strong typing of data, provisions for metadata and a substantial cleanup of the ...

Perl 6, a long-awaited upgrade to the well-known scripting language, has gone into beta, with the general release planned for Christmastime.

“Perl 6 could bring on a bloody revolution, or it could be a delightful step forward. You folks in the room will have to decide how violent or peaceful the future will be,” he said.