Perl
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Perl for Not Yet Techies
The current version of Perl is still 5. Perl
programmers are still supporting and adding to
Perl 5 even though Perl 6 has been in the
works since 2000.

Although Perl 6 is not yet in full operation,
there're books and lots of information out
about it.

It has a language-independent interpreter engine named
"Parrot" to execute the code.

Allison Randal is project manager of the Perl 6 core
development team and works with Larry Wall (creator of
Perl), Dan Sugalski, Hugo van der Sanden, chromatic
and Damian Conway. (She's also President of the
Perl Foundation.) Plus, it should be noted, a large
community of Perl fanatics, most of whom worked on
the project in their time off from their jobs.

Their goal was to add support for features and to make
Perl cleaner, faster and easier.

According to the Perl6 FAQ, they are planning to
produce a working Perl 6 compiler in the 3rd quarter
of 2005.

They are working on making it compatible with Perl 5.

For more information, go to:

Perl programming language

Perl 6 FAQ
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Pascal Programming Language
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Pascal for Not Yet Techies

Not much to update on this. Borland no longer support
Turbo Pascal. It promotes only the Delphi programming
environment for Windows.

Pascal programmers seem enthusiastic but somewhat
defensive and beleaguered.

They are an active community, however. There is still a
lot of work being done to create tools and compilers
for Pascal.

If you love Pascal, go to:

Pascal programming language
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