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Rakudo is a compiler for Perl 6 code. Install it and you're all set to run Perl 6 programs!
Download Rakudo Perl 6Many new features greatly advance our tradition of expressive and feature-rich programming
- Object-oriented programming including generics, roles and multiple dispatch
- Functional programming primitives, lazy and eager list evaluation, junctions, autothreading and hyperoperators (vector operators)
- Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony including multi-core support
- Definable grammars for pattern matching and generalized string processing
- Optional and gradual typing
for 'dict.txt'.IO.words -> $word {
say "$word probably rhymes with Perl"
if $word ~~ /[ea?|u|i] rl $/;
say "$word is a palindrome"
if $word eq $word.flip;
}my @fib = 0, 1, *+* ... *;
say "Fibonacci number #8 is @fib[7]";sub postfix:<!> (Int $n) {
fail "Not a Natural Number in Factorial" if $n < 0;
[*] 2..$n
}
use Test;
isa-ok (-1)!, Failure, "Factorial for -1 fails";
ok 0! == 1, "Factorial for 0";
ok 1! == 1, "Factorial for 1";
ok 5! == 120, "Factorial for a larger integer";Want to see more? Visit Perl 6 examples page