I officially started on my Google Summer of Code project (project details here) last weekend.
I’ve been tasked with writing a perldoc equivalent for Perl 6. I’ve decided to write it in Perl 5 for now, since it’s already got Perl6::Perldoc, which is a fast and feature-complete parser for the Perl 6 version of Pod (see specification), as well as lots of other useful CPAN modules which I won’t have to rewrite in Perl 6 (yet).
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