Perl 6 is due out on Christmas Day, bringing with it a new language that endeavors to be interoperable with its predecessor. The long-awaited sequel is slated to feature object-oriented ...

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

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.

The Perl 6 project, which aimed to radically reinvent the open source programming language, first began to take shape in 2000. A decade later, ...

News. Creator Promises Perl 6 Will Be First Truly Extensible Programming Language. By Joab Jackson; July 25, 2008; Perl creator Larry Wall promised version 6 of Perl will be the first truly extensible ...

In his annual “State of the Onion” speech at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language ...

With a month of blog posts, Perl 6 gears up for their Christmas release ...

The major re-engineering of the Perl technology promises to preserve Perl's legendary productivity in simple tasks while being built on a formal specification.

For instance, given a numerical pattern, Perl 6 can intuit the next numbers in the series. The statement “(1,3,5,7….*)” will return a set of twenty odd numbers, starting at one.