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.

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.

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

The GitHub community has been divided over the programming language Perl. The issue is that “‘Perl’ in the name ‘Perl 6’ is confusing and irritating.” According to the Perl team, the ...

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.

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 ...

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.