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Perl 6 Is Ready For Release

Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 24 December 2015 at 01:28 PM EST. 6 Comments

The Perl 6 Advent Calendar has announced the release of Perl 6.

Perl 6 was unveiled back in October with plans to officially ship the Perl 6.0 for Christmas. Larry Wall and those involved in Perl 6 development have managed to deliver.

Perl 6 breaks compatibility compared to Perl 5, there is added optional static types, parameter changes, support for coroutines and continuations, improved introspection, macros, garbage collection, and many other language additions over Perl 5.

More details on Perl 6 can be found via the Perl 6 advent calendar and by visiting Perl6.org.

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