User:Whiteknight/Perl 6 Programming

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The current Perl Programming book only covers Perl 5. I would like to create this, a parallel book, to cover the Perl 6 language. Since there are such significant differences between Perl 6 and Perl 5, I think it warrants having two books. This book will not necessarily cover material in the same order that it is presented in the Camel book (and therefore in the Synopses). I would like to have a template that shows the list of implementations and whether they support particular features. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 19:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The Plan

Target Audience

Computer programmers, or people interested in learning computer programming

Scope

Will introduce and explain the Perl 6 programming language.

Prerequisites

None. Should maybe be basically familiar with computer programming.

Corequisites

None.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Perl History
• Design Philosophy
• Perl 6 Implementations

Basics

• Basic Data Types
• Basic Operators
• Control Structures
• Subroutines

Classes and Objects

• Defining Classes
• Class Methods
• Operator Overloading
• Multi-Method Dispatch

Regular Expressions, Rules, Grammars

• Operator Overloading
• Regular Expressions
• Grammars
• Extending Perl 6

Functional Programming

• Blocks and Closures
• Lazy Lists and Iterators
• Meta operators

Multitasking and Concurrency

• Coroutines
• Threading
• Save States
• Atomic Operations

Organization

• Packages
• Modules
• Versioning

Resources

• Perl Programming
• Parrot Virtual Machine
• http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
• http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/synopsis.html

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Perl 6 Programming =Introduction

• Introduction
• Perl History
• Perl 6 Design
• Implementations

=Perl 6 Basics

• Types and Context
• Comments and POD
• Basic Operations
• Control Structures
• Subroutines
• Blocks and Closures

=Classes and Objects

• Classes And Attributes
• Class Methods
• Operator Overloading
• Multi-Method Dispatch

=Rules and Grammars

• Regular Expressions
• Grammars
• Operator Overloading
• Language Extensions

=Advanced Operations

• Junctions
• Meta Operators

&List operators, hyper operators, cross operators and reduction operators, among others.

• Lazy Lists and Feeds
• Gather and Take

=Exceptions

• Exceptions and Handlers
• Control Exceptions

=Multitasking and Concurrency

• Coroutines
• Threading
• Save States
• Atomic Operations

=Input and Output

• Files

=Organization

• Packages
• Modules
• Versioning

=World of Perl

• CPAN
• Migrating from Perl 5
• Getting Involved

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