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From:
Michael Mathews
Date:
May 21, 2006 15:04
Subject:
Fwd: Getting to hello world?
Message ID:
dab429000605211504l17f4c3abk2cc2daea8faa9d@mail.gmail.com
Yep, I knew what you meant! I'm in the process of writing this up
right now, assuming I can finish compiling Haskell sometime this week
(it ain't exactly a fast compile, hrmph).

--Michael Mathews
<onperl.org>

On 21/05/06, James Peregrino <james_peregrino@harvard.edu> wrote:
> You folks took me too literally :)  I meant:  Given a system without
> pugs/parrot/haskell (I assume perl5 is required), what are the things you
> need to install so that you can say
>
> perl6 -e "say 'hello world'"
>
> i.e.
>
> tar xf ghc.tar.gz
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> tar xf parrot.tar.gz
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> tar xf pugs.tar.gz
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> vi hello.p6
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/pugs
>
> say "hello world";
>
> Naturally it's much more complicated than that (choosing binary
> distributions, whether to get a source ball or svn, whether to run make
> test, etc).  But new users might not know that perl6=pugs right now and
> haskell is needed.  And where parrot fits in...
>
> -james
>
>

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