A Perl 6 Example

We're through the looking glass now, folks. Perl 6 is still bleeding-edge alpha-ware but it will run, mostly, on the "pugs" interpretter. Well, at least enough to get a feel for the new syntax. It feels weird.

I've been toying with the idea of installing Perl6 on my Mac, maybe playing around with it a little. Unfortunately that's not a trivial task, but today it just got a lot easier. Perl6 isn't done yet. But there is a reference implementation built in Haskell. So you'll need to start by downloading and installing ghc. Then you're in luck, because David Romano has just released Mac installers for the other two parts you'll need: Pugs and Parrot. At least on my 10.4 system, this worked like a charm. Then you can start your next perl script with #!/usr/bin/pugsand follow along with the examples of Perl6 you'll start seeing here and, more and more, all over.