This book is a guide to Perl 6 language features, as well as an advanced teaching guide for Perl 5. It's the most up-to-date Perl book available. Examples are provided for both Perl 5 when using modules to back port Perl 6 features, and Perl 6 native examples. This book's pragmatic approach shows you how to bootstrap new features onto the code you write day-to-day.
* Perl 6 is not going to be available for quite a while, but, there is enormous interest in the Perl community (Perl use=14% and succeeds Linux and PHP in popularity) about its features and coding style / Many Perl 6-isms are suitable for production code and serious software development.
* Most up-to-date text possible on the Perl language.
* Walters assists with bimonthly Phoenix Perl Mongers user group meetings, often presenting. Presentations include demonstrations of his CPAN modules, current topics in software engineering, object-oriented programming techniques, information security, peer to peer architecture, ecommerce with credit card gateways, and other topics.
