Perl 6 Fundamentals: A Primer with Examples, Projects, and Case Studies

by Moritz Lenz

Gain the skills to begin developing Perl 6 applications from the ground up in this hands-on compact book, which includes a foreword from Larry Wall, creator of Perl. You'll learn enough to get started building with Perl 6, using Perl 6's gradual typing, handy object orientation features, powerful parsing capabilities, and human-usable concurrency. After a short introduction, each chapter develops a small example project, explaining the Perl 6 features used. When the example is done, you'll explore another aspect, such as optimizing further for readability or testing the code.
Along the way you'll see Perl 6 basics, such as variables and scoping; subroutines; classes and objects; regexes; and code testing. When you've mastered the basics, Perl 6 Fundamentals moves onto more advanced topics to give you a deeper understanding of the language. You'll learn, amongst other things, how to work with persistent storage, how to generate good error messages, and how to write tricky applications such as a file and directory usage graph and a Unicode search tool.

What You'll Learn

• Get coding with Perl 6

• Work on several hands-on examples and projects

• Integrate Python libraries into your Perl 6 programs

• Parse INI files using regexes and grammars

• Build a date time converter

• Carry out refactoring and other automated tests


Who This Book Is For

If you already know one or more programming languages, and want to learn about Perl 6, this book is for you.

142 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book for being quite small in volume to read while in flight and was actually astonished by the fact so much was packed into the small book or maybe it's the conciseness of Perl as a language contributed to how much was covered in it.
Overall, Perl is a powerful modern multifaceted (OOP and Functional) language, very succinct and robust. Also, not at all intimidating.