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

• Main Author: Lenz, Moritz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer Science.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.; Open Source.

Gain the skills to begin developing Perl 6 applications from the ground up in this hands-on compact book. 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 sh...

Table of Contents:

• 1. What is Perl 6?
• 2. Running Rakudo Perl 6
• 3. Formatting a Sudoku Puzzle
• 4. Datetime Conversion for the Command Line
• 5. Testing say()
• 6. Silent Cron, a Cron Wrapper
• 7. Stateful Silent Cron
• 8. Review of the Perl 6 Basics
• 9. Parsing INI files using Regexes and Grammars
• 10. A File and Directory Usage Graph
• 11. A Unicode Search Tool
• 12. Plotting Using Inline::Python and Matplotlib
• 13. What's Next?.