Learning Perl 6
Keeping the Easy, Hard, and Impossible Within Reach
Published on 11. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-1-4919-7768-2 (ISBN)
Description
If you're ready to get started with Raku (formerly Perl 6), this is the book you want, whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Raku is a new language-a modern reinvention of Perl suitable for almost any task, from short fixes to complete web applications. This hands-on tutorial gets you started.
Author brian d foy (Mastering Perl) provides a sophisticated introduction to this new programming language. Each chapter in this guide contains exercises to help you practice what you learn as you learn it. Other books may teach you to program in Raku, but this book will turn you into a Raku programmer.
Learn how to work with:
Numbers, strings, blocks, and positionals
Files and directories and input/output
Associatives, subroutines, classes, and roles
Junctions and sets
Regular expressions and built-in grammars
Concurrency features: Promises, supplies, and channels
Controlling external programs and other advanced features
Author brian d foy (Mastering Perl) provides a sophisticated introduction to this new programming language. Each chapter in this guide contains exercises to help you practice what you learn as you learn it. Other books may teach you to program in Raku, but this book will turn you into a Raku programmer.
Learn how to work with:
Numbers, strings, blocks, and positionals
Files and directories and input/output
Associatives, subroutines, classes, and roles
Junctions and sets
Regular expressions and built-in grammars
Concurrency features: Promises, supplies, and channels
Controlling external programs and other advanced features
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
858 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4919-7768-2 (9781491977682)
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08/2018
O'Reilly
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08/2018
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Previous edition
Randal L. Schwartz | brian d foy | Tom Phoenix
Learning Perl, 7e
Book
10/2016
O'Reilly
€69.51
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Person
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.