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ranguard committed Mar 4, 2016
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The current leading implementation of Perl 6, Rakudo, released a "useful,
usable, 'early adopter'" distribution of Perl 6 (called Rakudo Star) in July of
2010. Please see L<http://rakudo.org/> for more information.

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There are really two tracks of perl development: a maintenance version
and an experimental version. The maintenance versions are stable, and
have an even number as the minor release (i.e. perl5.18.x, where 18 is the
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=head2 What is Perl 6?

Perl 6 was I<originally> described as the community's rewrite of Perl 5.
Development started in 2002; syntax and design work continue to this day.
As the language has evolved, it has become clear that it is a separate
language, incompatible with Perl 5 but in the same language family.
Perl 6 was I<originally> described as the community's rewrite of Perl 5,
however as the language evolved, it became clear that it is a separate
language, but in the same language family as Perl 5.

Perl 6 is not intended primarily as a replacement for Perl 5, but as its
own thing - and libraries exist to allow you to call Perl 5 code from Perl
6 programs and vice versa.

Contrary to popular belief, Perl 6 and Perl 5 peacefully coexist with one
another. Perl 6 has proven to be a fascinating source of ideas for those
using Perl 5 (the L<Moose> object system is a well-known example). There is
overlap in the communities, and this overlap fosters the tradition of sharing
and borrowing that have been instrumental to Perl's success. The current
leading implementation of Perl 6 is Rakudo, and you can learn more about
it at L<http://rakudo.org>.
and borrowing that have been instrumental to Perl's success.

If you want to learn more about Perl 6, or have a desire to help in
the crusade to make Perl a better place then read the Perl 6 developers
If you want to learn more about Perl 6 read the Perl 6 developers
page at L<http://www.perl6.org/> and get involved.

"We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing."
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