Out of curiosity, is it possible to get Rakukdo to talk to C, C++ or Fortran?
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to > announce the December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable > distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the December 2010 release is > available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. > > Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that > it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and > there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification > that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form > is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications > and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are > intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow > the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the > Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. > > In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language > ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as > "Rakudo Perl". The December 2010 Star release includes release #36 > of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.11.0 of the Parrot > Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, > and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. > > This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the > previous Star release: > * New .trans algorithm > * Configuration improvements > * More bug fixes > > There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not > yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming > releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a > "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there > features include: > * nested package definitions > * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack > * typed arrays > * macros > * state variables > * threads and concurrency > * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints > * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers > * interactive readline that understands Unicode > * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes > * non-blocking I/O > * most of Synopsis 9 > * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools > > In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the > programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are > many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken > features are welcomed at <rakudo...@perl.org>. > > See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about > Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference > materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. > An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as > <docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball. > > The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors > for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, > see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org > mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > Starting with the January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be > created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important > bug fixes or improvements. The next planned release of Rakudo Star > will be on January 25, 2011. > > [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo > [2] http://parrot.org/ > -- No trees were destroyed in the generation of this email, but a large number of electrons were severely inconvenienced.
