Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials

Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold Toetsch059600737X, 9780596007379

The authors, members of the core development team for Perl 6, describe the newest developments in the design philosophy, basic syntax, and subroutines of the project-in particular those relating to Parrot, the language-dependent virtual machine that can be used to interpret other dynamic languages such as Python, Tel, Ruby and Java. They include descriptions of the newest upgrades to Apocalypse 12 (objects) as well as Apocalypse 5 (regular expressions) and Apocalypse 6 (subroutines). They also include resources programmers and developers can use to contribute to the project.