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Perl 6: reconciling the irreconcilable

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Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages archive
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages table of contents

Nice, France

SESSION: Keynote session table of contents

Pages: 1 - 1

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:1-59593-575-4

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Audrey Tang

pugscode.org, Taipei City, Taiwan R.O.C.

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Perl is a general-purpose language, known for its vast number of freely available libraries. The Perl 6 project was started to improve the language's support for multi-paradigmatic programming, while retaining compatibility with the existing code base. This talk discusses how Perl 6 attempts to reconcile various competing paradigms in the field of programming language design, such as static vs. dynamic typechecking, nominal vs. structural subtyping, prototype vs. class-based objects, and lazy vs. eager evaluation. Moreover, this talk also covers the design and development of Pugs, a self-hosting Perl 6 implementation bootstrapped from Haskell, targeting multiple runtime environments, including Perl 5, JavaScript and Parrot.

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