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The following table contains the Perl 5 version history, showing its release versions. Not all versions are covered yet. Not all versions are covered yet. Note that additional minor release versions may not be shown in this chart, unless they include notable changes or are the latest supported version.
The STD is a full grammar for Perl 6 and is written in Perl 6. In theory, anything capable of parsing the STD and generating executable code is a suitable bootstrapping system for Perl 6. kp6 is currently compiled by mp6 and can work with multiple backends. [27] [28] mp6 and kp6 are not full Perl 6 implementations and are designed only to ...
The Perl On New Internal Engine (PONIE) project existed from 2003 until 2006. It was to be a bridge between Perl 5 and 6, and an effort to rewrite the Perl 5 interpreter to run on the Perl 6 Parrot virtual machine. The goal was to ensure the future of the millions of lines of Perl 5 code at thousands of companies around the world. [53]
Perl 5 has built-in, language-level support for associative arrays. Modern Perl refers to associative arrays as hashes; the term associative array is found in older documentation but is considered somewhat archaic. Perl 5 hashes are flat: keys are strings and values are scalars.
1975-2013, R 0 RS, R 1 RS, R 2 RS, R 3 RS, R 4 RS, R 5 RS, R 6 RS, R 7 RS Small Edition [42] [43] Seed7: Application, general, scripting, web Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Multi-paradigm, extensible, structured No Simula: Education, general Yes Yes No No No No discrete event simulation, multi-threaded (quasi-parallel) program execution Yes 1968 Small Basic
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, [1] is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition (1993) was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz , and covered Perl 4.
Perl Programming Documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language. It is available in several different formats, including online in HTML and PDF. The documentation is bundled with Perl in its own format, known as Plain Old Documentation (pod).
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