www-new/content/events/2002/fall/Perl-6.md

name	short	date	online	location
Perl 6	A talk by Simon Law	November 21 2002 18:00	false	MC2066

Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language can only be described as an eclectic language, invented and refined by a deranged system administrator, who was trained as a linguist. This man, however, has declared:

• 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

Whenever a language is designed by a committee, it is common wisdom to avoid it. Not so with Perl, for it cannot get worse. However strange these Perl people seem, Perl 6 is a good thing coming. In this talk, I will demonstrate some Perl 5 programs, and talk about their Perl 6 counterparts, to show you that Perl 6 will be cleaner, friendlier, and prettier.