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<p>We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourself. So that's
what we do: write one.</p>

<p>We, that is Patrick Michaud (architect of the Rakudo Perl compiler), Jonathan
Worthington (prolific contributor to both Rakudo and Parrot), Carl Mäsak
(probably the first Rakudo user ever, and our number one bug finder) and
Moritz Lenz (keeper of the Perl 6 test suite, and Perl 6 user and blogger). We
are also open to contribution from others - already Jonathan Scott Duff has
written an initial preface for us.</p>

<p>We don't have a name yet for our book. We want to cover the basics of Perl 6,
enough to get your feet wet, and enough to make you want to use it. We want it
to be based on useful examples. It is not going to be the definitive book,
that task we leave to Larry Wall and Damian Conway.</p>

<p>Our vision is to present primarily the subset of Perl 6 that Rakudo
understands, and have printed copies available by the time Rakudo Star is
released, that is April or May 2010. Chromatic and Allison Randal have kindly
offered to published it via Onyx Neon Press.</p>

<p>Until then, monthly releases will be published under a Creative Commons license
(noncommercial, attribution, share-alike). </p>

<p>Currently there are four chapters under construction, with the intention to
write the more introductory chapters later, when we know what we need to
introduce for the later chapters. So far we have</p>

<ul>
    <li> Multi dispatch</li>
    <li> Classes and Object</li>
    <li> Regexes</li>
    <li> Grammars</li>
</ul>

<p>Interested? Check out
<a href="http://github.com/perl6/book">the git repository</a>, and
join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.</p>