Perl 6

Solidot消息，Perl6似乎快要发布了。

大三时在选择Perl还是Python的时候犹豫了好久，前者当时有一本大
部头可读，作者之一便是Larry Wall本人，但我知道Perl6将不会兼容
5。后者当时还不甚流行，但CSDN上``恶魔吹着笛子来''的一系列专栏
还颇不错。最终，两者都接触了一点皮毛，主要精力还是C、Linux。

"Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl. I want Perl 6 to be the
community's rewrite of Perl and of the community."
-- Larry Wall, State of the Onion speech, TPC4

The vision for Perl 6 is more than simply a rewrite of Perl
5. By separating the parsing from the compilation and the
runtime, we're opening the doors for multiple languages to
cooperate. You'll be able to write your program in Perl 6,
Perl 5, TCL, Python, or any other language that there's a
parser written for. Interchangable runtime engines let you
interpret your bytecode or convert it to something else
(e.g., Java, C, or even back to Perl).
-- http://dev.perl.org/perl6

"These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will
work together to make the future Perl even more insanely
great -- without, we hope, making it even more greatly
insane."
-- Damian Conway, Linux Magazine, April 2003

过去几年中，Python蚕食了很大原先属于Perl的市场，不知Perl6能否
像说介绍的那样酷，期待中。