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<blockquote><i>a very sore point ... my boss tried to look at Perl 6 ... documentation ... assumed that he was already fluent in Perl 5</i></blockquote>
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P6 isn't ready for general consumption, and documentation is one of many reasons for that. That said, fwiw, I don't think p6doc (doc.perl6.org) assumes knowledge of P5 (beyond its existence).
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<blockquote><i>http://doc.perl6.org/ - it feels to me like some automatically generated documentation that is not intended for human consumption. Maybe it is a good reference if you're looking for a concise description of how an operator works</i></blockquote>
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<b>Update:</b> The CSS etc for doc.perl6.org has been improved to make it less ugly; perhaps it now looks intended for human consumption.
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<b>p6doc is intended to be the P6 equivalent of P5's perldoc.</b> "I want p6doc and doc.perl6.org to become the No. 1 resource to consult when you want to know something about a Perl 6 type or routine (be it method, sub or operator)." -- Moritz, in the readme of <a href="https://github.com/perl6/doc">the p6doc project</a>.
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<blockquote><i>it surely can't be intended as the starting point for getting in touch with Perl 6.</i></blockquote>
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Right.
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Imo the smart starting point is to join the IRC channel <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/perl6">#perl6 on freenode</a>, introduce yourself, and ask for pointers. If you can't or won't join #perl6, see my [id://1033899|P6-documentation-for-contributors] PerlMonks post for some alternate starting points.
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