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The Perl Language Family

This is a list of members of the Perl family of programming languages. Only implementations that showed some recent activity in their code repositories as of mid-2019 have been included.

last updated: 2019-07-31

The Siblings

Perl 5 Direct descendant of Larry Wall's original language, maintained and incrementally evolved to this day by a team of volunteers. perl.org · perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/shortlog

Perl 6 A top-to-bottom redesign of the language under the auspices of Larry Wall, with an implementation developed and maintained by a team of volunteers. perl6.org · github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commits

The Cousins

cperl Reini Urban's fork of Perl 5, with the goal to modernize both language and implementation. perl11.org/cperl/STATUS · github.com/perl11/cperl/commits

RPerl Will Braswell's optimizing compiler for a restricted subset of Perl 5. rperl.org · github.com/wbraswell/rperl/commits

SPVM Yuki Kimoto's virtual machine for his Static Perl language dialect. metacpan.org/pod/SPVM · github.com/yuki-kimoto/SPVM/commits

NQP A lower-level variant of Perl 6 used to implement the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. github.com/perl6/nqp · github.com/perl6/nqp/commits

Perlito Flávio S. Glock's compiler collection implementing subsets of Perl 5 and Perl 6. fglock.github.io/Perlito · github.com/fglock/Perlito/commits