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Perl 6 has slides, IRC, a skim-through (learnxinyminutes), reference docs, examples, but alas no solid tutorial. This, IMO, will be a major problem if it persists until Christmas.

Perl 6 needs a good tutorial.

The page looks fine. I think the "Fun" and "Whatever" pages could be merged. The front page should probably explain more why someone would want to use the language. That said thoug…

This is on Debian Testing: $ perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.say' debian (3.16.0.4.amd.64) Sorry, should probably take this to #perl6.

Thanks. Tried installing but got errors. ==> Fetching p6doc ==> Building p6doc ==> Testing p6doc # Failed test 'empty blocks argument gives undefined content' # at t/pod-convenienc…

Thanks, kbenson; missed that. Works now!

Ok. Command-line history/editing works now. I wiped out ~/.rakudobrew and started over: rakudobrew build moar rakudobrew build-panda panda install Linenoise Thanks.

I installed via rakudobrew (`rakudobrew build glr`), but have no `panda` in my ~/.rakudobrew/bin directory.

It's great that this is available (haven't worked through it yet). Two major show-stoppers for me right now though: * In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to…

My understanding is that type inferencing allows you to omit specifying types in many places (the compiler uses heuristics to figure out the types in those places out at compile-ti…

> > * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and > I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang. > The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion. I use …

I've avoided Haskell, primarily because: * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and * recalling C++ & Java, not crazy about the idea of going back to having to specify types for e…