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Congratulations Larry and the Perl 6 community!

From what little I've played around with the language in the past, I really like it, and I'm glad the community can put the "still in development" talking point behind it.

Also, one of my favorite things about Perl 6 is that the Rakudo interpreter prints some of the nicest error messages I've ever seen. It actually offers suggested solutions, and it points out Perl 5->6 migration gotchas.




As far as I understand, Rakudo is a compiler, not an interpreter. It compiles perl 6 source files into bytecode that is executed by a VM.


Yeah, you're right. Total brainfart there.




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