Acknowledgements

Through the course of writing this book, I contacted many people who helped me clarify many dark corners of Perl 6. First of all, thanks to the reviewers of this book, Liz Mattijsen, who is also the core developer of the Perl 6 compiler, and Alex Kapranoff, who has helped me promote Perl 6 for more than a decade already.

I would also like to thank the whole Rakudo compiler team, who worked hard to make things happen even when almost nobody believed that Perl 6 would become a reality. So, primarily, thanks to Jonathan Worthington for not only working on the compiler, but also for his talks, which I found on YouTube and used for reference. Also, thanks to the rest of the team.

Special thanks go to Wendy van Dijk, who has done great work to change the image of the Perl language and has personally helped me promote my books.

And of course, thanks to the author of Perl, Larry Wall, and his wife, Gloria, for the years of patience and enthusiasm; they made Perl 6 fly in the end.

This book has also been possible due to the number of other Perl 6 books that appeared this year; so, I want to thank the authors of those books as they indirectly stimulated me to write faster and more.

Finally, this book took its shape with the efforts of the editors at Packt, Lawrence Veigas, who guided me through the writing process, and Mehul Singh, who joined at the last stage of the publishing process and provided many suggestions on how to make the book better and more useful for the readers.