Developers can unwrap Perl 6 on Christmas

Perl 6 is due out on Christmas Day, bringing with it a new language that endeavors to be interoperable with its predecessor.
The long-awaited sequel is slated to feature object-oriented programming with generics, functional programming primitives, parallelism, and optional and gradual typing. "Christmas is still the plan [for release], though of course in some cultures that lasts till January 6 or so," Perl founder Larry Wall said in an email late last week. "We're just trying to nail down as m