Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials: The Community's Rewrite of Perl

Distilling many years of Perl experience—including an insiders look at Perl development (the authors are members of the Perl 6 core development team)—Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition is an unparalleled preview of major changes in the widely-anticipated Perl 6. This sneak peek of what's coming in Perl includes succinct but thorough coverage of groundbreaking new developments in Parrot—the language-independent interpreter engine that will execute code written in the new Perl 6 langua...