Introduction to Perl 6

This is a talk I am giving to a local group of techs called flinthills.io. I am uploading the slides here for their reference.

All of the code here has been posted to glot.io to make it easy for them to try out in a browser:

https://glot.io/users/sterling/snippets

To install and run these locally, visit the Perl 6 web site and click on the Download Rakudo Perl 6 and follow the instructions:

https://perl6.org

For some additional talks that are most certainly better than mine, the first two being intros like my talk and the two by Michaud being tutorials that introduce language features in a way that can help you start to use it:

• Curtis “Ovid” Poe, Perl 6 — Why People Are So Excited at FOSDEM ‘16
• Damian Conway, On the Shoulders of Giants at The Perl Conference, North America, ‘16
• Patrick Michaud, Perl 6 for beginners - Part 1 of 2 at The Perl Conference, North America, ‘16
• Patrick Michaud, Perl 6 for beginners - Part 2 of 2 at The Perl Conference, North America, ‘16

And to learn more you can try these sites:

• Learn X in Y Minutes Where X = Perl 6
• Perl 6 Documentation