The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku, so this year’s advent calendar can be found at rakuadventcalendar.wordpress.com.
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Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2014: Table of Contents
This post serves as a table of contents for the 2014 Perl 6 advent calendar. Links to new posts will appear here during the course of this month.
- Day 01 – The State of Perl 6 in 2014
- Day 02 – Rakudobrew
- Day 03 – Cap Your Junctions
- Day 04 – Composers, Coercers, and the Case of a Camel’s Curious Corner
- Day 05 – Act with great Responsibility
- Day 06 – Running External Programs from Perl 6
- Day 07 – that’s how we .roll these days
- Day 08 – A HTTP User Agent with SSL/TLS
- Day 09 – Data munging in Perl 6 vs Perl 5
- Day 10 – Inspecting the Symbol Tables
- Day 11 – So, what does MoarVM do with your Perl 6 code?
- Day 12 – Towards cleaner JVM-Interoperability
- Day 13 – String Interpolation and the Zen Slice
- Day 14 – A Perl 6 Timer: Ready, Set, Go!
- Day 15 – Bioinformatics and the joy of Perl 6
- Day 16 – Quoting on Steroids
- Day 17 – Three strange loops
- Day 18 – MoarVM Internals for the Brave (and Curious)
- Day 19 – Snow white and the seven conditionals
- Day 20 – Helping Santa with Roles
- Day 21 – Community smoke testing
- Day 22 – The Cool subset of MAIN.
- Day 23 – Webscale sorting of the sleepy kind
- Day 24 – Seeing Wrong Right
- Merry Christmas!
Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2013: Table of Contents
This post serves as a table of contents for the 2013 Perl 6 advent calendar. Links to new posts will appear here during the course of this month.
- Day 01 – The State of Perl 6 in 2013
- Day 02 – The humble type object
- Day 03 – Rakudo Perl 6 on the JVM
- Day 04 – Heredocs, Theredocs, Everywheredocs docs
- Day 05 – Changes in specification and operational fallout
- Day 06 – Parsing and generating recurring dates
- Day 07 – Bagging the changes in the Set specification
- Day 08 – Array-based objects
- Day 09 – Hashes and pairs
- Day 10 – Adverbly Adverby Adverbs
- Day 11 – Installing Modules
- Day 12 – Slicing with adverbs, the only way!
- Day 13 – Roasting Rakudo Star
- Day 14 – Asynchronous Programming: Promises and Channels
- Day 15 – Numbers and ways of writing them
- Day 16 – Slangs
- Day 17 – Of a new contributor
- Day 18 – A Grammar with Duplicate checking
- Day 19 – Perl 6 Supplies Reactive Programming
- Day 20 – How to mangle the initial state
- Day 21 – Signatures
- Day 22 – A catalogue of operator types
- Day 23 – Unary Sort
- Day 24 – Advent Ventures
Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2012: Table of Contents
This post serves as a table of contents for the 2012 Perl 6 advent calendar. Links to new posts will appear here during the course of this month.
- Day 1 – State of Perl 6 in 2012
- Day 2 – Anonymous functions for great good
- Day 3 – Whatever the layout manager is
- Day 4 – Having Fun with Rakudo and Project Euler
- Day 5 – A Perl 6 Debugger
- Day 6 – Lexical imports
- Day 7 – MIME::Base64 – On encoded strings
- Day 8 – Panda package manager
- Day 9 – Longest Token Matching
- Day 10 – Don’t quote me on it
- Day 11 – Parrot threads
- Day 12 – Exceptions
- Day 13 – Bags and Sets
- Day 14 – Primal Needs
- Day 15 – Phasers set to stun
- Day 16 – Operator precedence
- Day 17 – Perl 6 from 30,000 feet
- Day 18 – Formulas: resistance is futile
- Day 19 – Gather and/or Coroutines
- Day 20 – Dynamic variables and DSL-y things
- Day 21 – Collatz Variations
- Day 22 – Parsing an IPv4 address
- Day 23 – Macros
- Day 24 – An Advent Calendar
See also: table of contents for 2011, 2010, 2009.
Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2011
For the third year in a row, we are going to post something about Perl 6 every day until Christmas. This post will serve as a table of contents for the entire month.
Day 1: Catching Up With Perl 6
Day 2: Grammar::Tracer and Grammar::Debugger
Day 3: Buffers and Binary IO
Day 4: Traits — Meta Data with Character
Day 5: The Flip-Flop operator
Day 6: Tetris on Niecza
Day 7: Adventures in writing a simple grammar profiler
Day 8: Lexicality and Optimizability
Day 9: Contributing to Perl 6
Day 10: Documenting Perl 6
Day 11: Privacy and OOP
Day 12: Exploratory Parsing with Perl 6
Day 13: Bailador — A small Dancer clone
Day 14: Meta-programming: what, why and how
Day 15: Something Exceptional
Day 16: Where Have All The References Gone?
Day 17: Gtk Mandelbrot
Day 18: The view from the inside: using meta-programming to implement Rakudo
Day 19: Abstraction and why it’s good
Day 20: Paired up Hashes
Day 21: Native libraries, native objects
Day 22: Operator overloading, revisited
Day 23: Idiomatic Perl 6
Day 24: Subs are Always Better in multi-ples
Day 25: Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
The people who brought you this year’s Advent Calendar had a blast doing so — it’s exciting to get to present new and old Perl 6 features to new and old readers. Thanks everyone! And Merry Christmas!
Day 1 – Reaching the Stars
Day 2 – Interacting with the command line with MAIN subs
Day 3 – File operations
Day 4 – The Sequence Operators
Day 5 – Why Perl syntax does what you want
Day 6 – The X and Z metaoperators
Day 7 – Lexical variables
Day 8 – Different Names of Different Things
Day 9 – The module ecosystem
Day 10 – Feed operators
Day 11 – Markov Sequence
Day 12 – Smart matching
Day 13 – The Perl6 Community
Day 14 – nextsame and its cousins
Day 15 – Calling native libraries from Perl 6
Day 16: Time in Perl6
Day 17 – Rosetta Code
Day 18 – ABC Module
Day 19 – False truth
Day 20 – The Perl 6 Synopses
Day 21 – transliteration and beyond
Day 22 – The Meta-Object Protocol
Day 23 – It’s some .sort of wonderful.
Day 24 – Yule the Ancient Troll-tide Carol
Day 25 – Merry Christmas!
Perl 6 Advent Calendar
In the grand tradition of previous Perl Advent Calendars, we are going to post something we like about Perl 6 every day in December until Christmas. This post will be updated daily to link to each post as a sort of table of contents, or you can follow this blog in the normal way you follow blogs.
Day 1: Getting Rakudo
Day 2: The Beauty Of Formatting
Day 3: Static Types and Multi Subs
Day 4: Testing
Day 5: Metaoperators
Day 6: Going Into Hyperspace
Day 7: Looping For Fun and Profit
Day 8: .comb Your Constraints
Day 9: Having Beautiful Arguments And Parameters
Day 10: A Regex Story
Day 11: Classes, Attributes, Methods, and More
Day 12: Modules and Exporting
Day 13: Junctions
Day 14: Going to the Rats
Day 15: .pick Your Game
Day 16: We Call It “The Old Switcheroo”
Day 17: Making Snowmen
Day 18: Roles
Day 19: Whatever
Day 20: Little Big Things
Day 21: Grammars and Actions
Day 22: Operator Overloading
Day 23: Lazy Fruits From the Gather of Eden
Day 24: The Perl 6 Standard Grammar
Merry Christmas!
Raku Advent Calendar (2009-2019) 