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[preface] slight rephrasings
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Carl Masak committed Apr 23, 2010
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Perl 6 is a language specification, and multiple compilers and interpreters
exist in various stages of completeness. These implementations have in turn
influenced the design of the Perl 6 programming language by highlighting
clumsy features, or those that are unnecessary hard to implement with little
misfeatures, or features that are unnecessarily hard to implement with little
benefit. So after a gestation period, we have a more cohesive and consistent
language specification and a compiler that implements a good bit of it.

In the pages that follow, you will be introduced to the Perl 6 language.
The examples can be run with the I<Rakudo Perl 6> Compiler, but they are in no
way specific to Rakudo -- any sufficiently advanced Perl 6 implementation can
run them. Good luck and as the Perl 6 community often says: have fun!
run them. Good luck and -- as the Perl 6 community often says -- have fun!

This book is a work-in-progress, and it is expected that even releases
will contain some amount of C<TODO> comments prior to the printing of the
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