Raku
Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly named Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. Compatibility with Perl was not a goal, though a compatibility mode is part of the specification. The design process for Raku began in 2000. Wikipedia
Created Year: 2015Designed by: Audrey Tang • Damian Conway • Larry Wall
Developed by: Audrey Tang • Larry Wall
Operating systems: cross-platform
Implemented in: Raku
Aliases: Perl 6, Perl6
File extensions: raku, rakudoc, rakumod, rakutest, t
Wikidata: Q2052676
Influenced by: Ada • APL • Common Lisp • Haskell • Perl • Python • Ruby • Self • Smalltalk
Programming paradigms: imperative programming • object-oriented programming • functional programming
Raku Influence Network
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Hello World in Raku
say "Hello World";
Source: github.com/leachim6/hello-world
Free Raku books, articles, documentation
- Metagenomics - Ken Youens-Clark
- Perl 6 at a Glance - Andrew Shitov (PDF)
- Raku Documentation - Raku Documentation (HTML)
- Raku Guide (HTML) (PDF) (CC BY-SA)
- Raku One-Liners - Andrew Shitov (PDF)
- Raku Programming - Wikibooks (HTML)
- Think Raku - Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey (PDF)
- Using Perl 6 ( :construction: project is dead)
- X=Raku - Learn X in Y minutes (HTML)
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