Learning Perl 6 ― Keeping the Easy, Hard, and Impossible Within Reach

If you’re just getting started with Perl 6, this is the book you want, whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Perl 6 isn’t just another version of the language—it’s a modern reinvention of Perl, suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications.

Written by one of the most highly recognized leaders in the Perl community, this book is the most sophisticated introduction to this new language. You’ll learn key language details as well as some advanced topics. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

brian d foy is a prolific Perl trainer and writer, and runs The Perl Review to help people use and understand Perl through educational, consulting, code review, and more. He's a frequent speaker at Perl conferences. He's the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, and Effective Perl Programming, and the author of Mastering Perl. He was been an instructor and author for Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009, a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, and a die-hard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc., which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts.