Last Updated on May 22, 2022
4. Perl 6 at a Glance by Andrew Shitov
This book is about Perl 6, a programming language of the Perl family.
It covers many basic and in-depth topics of the language and provides the initial knowledge you need to start working with Perl 6.
The book does not require any previous experience with Perl, although some general understanding of programming is assumed.
Readers can follow the examples in the book and test their own programs with the Rakudo Star compiler.
5. Raku Programming by Wikibooks
Raku is a successor of the Perl programming language, representing a major backwards-incompatible rewrite of the language. It’s a versatile and powerful multi-paradigm programming language.
This book is going to introduce the reader to the Raku language and its many features.
This book is intended for intermediate readers.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Raku Guide and more
Page 2 – Perl 6 at a Glance and more
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Agda | Dependently typed functional language based on intuitionistic Type Theory |
Arduino | Inexpensive, flexible, open source microcontroller platform |
Assembly | As close to writing machine code without writing in pure hexadecimal |
Awk | Versatile language designed for pattern scanning and processing language |
Bash | Shell and command language; popular both as a shell and a scripting language |
BASIC | Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
C | General-purpose, procedural, portable, high-level language |
C++ | General-purpose, portable, free-form, multi-paradigm language |
C# | Combines the power and flexibility of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic |
Clojure | Dialect of the Lisp programming language |
ClojureScript | Compiler for Clojure that targets JavaScript |
COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language |
CoffeeScript | Transcompiles into JavaScript inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell |
Coq | Dependently typed language similar to Agda, Idris, F* and others |
Crystal | General-purpose, concurrent, multi-paradigm, object-oriented language |
CSS | CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) specifies a web page’s appearance |
D | General-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax |
Dart | Client-optimized language for fast apps on multiple platforms |
Dylan | Multi-paradigm language supporting functional and object-oriented coding |
ECMAScript | Best known as the language embedded in web browsers |
Eiffel | Object-oriented language designed by Bertrand Meyer |
Elixir | Relatively new functional language running on the Erlang virtual machine |
Erlang | General-purpose, concurrent, declarative, functional language |
F# | Uses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods |
Factor | Dynamic stack-based programming language |
Forth | Imperative stack-based programming language |
Fortran | The first high-level language, using the first compiler |
Go | Compiled, statically typed programming language |
Groovy | Powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language |
Haskell | Standardized, general-purpose, polymorphically, statically typed language |
HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
Icon | Wide variety of features for processing and presenting symbolic data |
J | Array programming language based primarily on APL |
Java | General-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, high-level language |
JavaScript | Interpreted, prototype-based, scripting language |
Julia | High-level, high-performance language for technical computing |
Kotlin | More modern version of Java |
LabVIEW | Designed to enable domain experts to build power systems quickly |
LaTeX | Professional document preparation system and document markup language |
Lisp | Unique features - excellent to study programming constructs |
Logo | Dialect of Lisp that features interactivity, modularity, extensibility |
Lua | Designed as an embeddable scripting language |
Markdown | Plain text formatting syntax designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write |
Objective-C | Object-oriented language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to C |
OCaml | The main implementation of the Caml language |
Pascal | Imperative and procedural language designed in the late 1960s |
Perl | High-level, general-purpose, interpreted, scripting, dynamic language |
PHP | PHP has been at the helm of the web for many years |
PostScript | Interpreted, stack-based and Turing complete language |
Prolog | A general purpose, declarative, logic programming language |
PureScript | Small strongly, statically typed language compiling to JavaScript |
Python | General-purpose, structured, powerful language |
QML | Hierarchical declarative language for user interface layout - JSON-like syntax |
R | De facto standard among statisticians and data analysts |
Racket | General-purpose, object-oriented, multi-paradigm, functional language |
Raku | Member of the Perl family of programming languages |
Ruby | General purpose, scripting, structured, flexible, fully object-oriented language |
Rust | Ideal for systems, embedded, and other performance critical code |
Scala | Modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based language |
Scheme | A general-purpose, functional language descended from Lisp and Algol |
Scratch | Visual programming language designed for 8-16 year-old children |
SQL | Access and manipulate data held in a relational database management system |
Standard ML | General-purpose functional language characterized as "Lisp with types" |
Swift | Powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language |
Tcl | Dynamic language based on concepts of Lisp, C, and Unix shells |
TeX | Markup and programming language - create professional quality typeset text |
TypeScript | Strict syntactical superset of JavaScript adding optional static typing |
Vala | Object-oriented language, syntactically similar to C# |
VHDL | Hardware description language used in electronic design automation |
VimL | Powerful scripting language of the Vim editor |
XML | Rules for defining semantic tags describing structure ad meaning |