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diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 deleted file mode 100644 index 5896acc..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +0,0 @@ -Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 - -On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to -announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 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". "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes -release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of -the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. We -plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with -occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or -changes. - -Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this -release of Rakudo Star: - * Perl 6 grammars and regexes - * formal parameter lists and signatures - * metaoperators - * gradual typing - * a powerful object model, including roles and classes - * lazy list evaluation - * multiple dispatch - * smart matching - * junctions and autothreading - * operator overloading (limited forms for now) - * introspection - * currying - * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types - * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop - * Unicode at the codepoint level - * resumable exceptions - -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. - -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. - -Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of -the modules provided by this release include: - * Blizkost - - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6 - * MiniDBI - - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6 - * Zavolaj - - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6 - * SVG and SVG::Plot - - create scalable vector graphics - * HTTP::Daemon - - a simple HTTP server - * XML::Writer - - generate XML - * YAML - - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML - * Term::ANSIColor - - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences - * Test::Mock - - create mock objects and check what methods were called - * Math::Model - - describe and run mathematical models - * Config::INI - - parse and write configuration files - * File::Find - - find files in a given directory - * LWP::Simple - - fetch resources from the web - -These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module -development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases -of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set -of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be -created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose -different sets of modules or policies. More information about -Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/. - -Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see -<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-compiler@perl.org -mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. - -Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed -in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned -release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ |