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diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 deleted file mode 100644 index be3c8a3..0000000 --- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +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 January 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2011 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". The January 2011 Star release includes release #37 -of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.0.0 of the Parrot -Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, -and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. - -This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the -previous Star release: - * faster subroutine calls (type cache) - * implemented 'handles Rolename' trait - * 'use Devel::Trace' debugging pragma - * improved parsing of keyword boundaries - * faster .comb - -There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not -yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming -releases. 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 at <rakudobug@perl.org>. - -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. -An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as -<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. - -Starting with this January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be -created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important -bug fixes or improvements. (The Rakudo compiler will continue with -monthly releases.) The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be -in April 2011. - -[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo -[2] http://parrot.org/ |