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Perl 6 is the up-and-coming little sister to Perl 5. Though it resembles previous versions of [[Perl]] to no small degree, Perl 6 is substantially a new language; by design, it isn't backwards-compatible with Perl 5. In development since 2000, Perl 6 still lacks a complete implementation of its specification, the [http://perlcabal.org/syn/ Synopses]
Damian Conway described the basic philosophy of Perl 6 as follows:
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Major new features include multiple dispatch, declarative classes, grammars, formal parameters to subroutines, type constraints on variables, lazy evaluation, junctions, meta-operators, and the ability to change Perl's syntax at will with hygienic macros and user-defined operators.
There are several different partial implementations of Perl 6. They vary widely in design goals, degree of completeness, and current development activity. At present, the
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