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advanced Perl 6 implementation can run them. Good luck and--as the Perl 6
community often says--have fun!

=head1 Installing Rakudo
=head1 Obtaining Rakudo

For complete instructions for downloading and installing Rakudo, see
U<http://www.rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo>. Source code releases are available
from U<http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>. A binary release for windows
is available from U<http://sourceforge.net/projects/parrotwin32/files/>.
U<http://www.rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo>. Monthly source code releases
for the compiler are available at U<http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.
However, you may want to obtain the "early adopter" distribution of
Rakudo called I<Rakudo Star>. The Rakudo Star distribution is available
at U<http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. It contains the Rakudo Perl 6
compiler, some useful modules, and a copy of this book.

=head1 Executing programs

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=end screen

If you invoke the Rakudo compiler without an explicit script to run, it enters
a small interactive mode that allows the execution of Perl 6 statements from
the command line.
an interactive mode that allows the execution of Perl 6 statements from
the command line. A so-called "read eval print loop" (a.k.a. REPL).

=head1 Getting involved

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