Hi Phil,<br><br>I agree, Perl 6 has the promise to be a really great programming language.<br><br>The various people and teams of people who are currently working to implement Perl 6 are working on it as much as they reasonably (or in many cases, unreasonably) can, especially given that it is a volunteer effort.
<br><br>You can join that effort. Volunteers are welcome, needed, and make a big difference. For instance, of the people I know who are on this list, Jim Keenan is a very committed volunteer. Maybe you could talk to him about ways you can make a difference too?
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2007 9:52 AM, phil <<a href="mailto:phil@turboschedule.com">phil@turboschedule.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Richard,<br><br> I'd like Perl6 to be available as soon as possible.<br><br>The 'cleaner' syntax, curried functions and prototyping of Perl6 are of<br>interest to me.<br><br> Some of the 'esoteric' featues like macros that can modify
<br>the AST or changing the Perl6 grammar (like Acme::Dot or overload) are also<br>interesting. Not sure how useful they would be though (cf, Damian's paper on<br>OO in Perl)<br><br> I'd like better performance than Perl5 and I guess this is where Parrot's
<br>optimized JIT comes in. My cursory look at the performance of the<br>various Perl(s) (cf, <a href="http://www.sidhe.org/%7Etimeparrot/graphs/A/" target="_blank">http://www.sidhe.org/~timeparrot/graphs/A/</a>) indicates
<br>that the Parrot optimized JIT is promising.<br><font color="#888888"><br><br>-Phil<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Thursday 08 November 2007 03:08 pm, Richard Dice wrote:<br>> Hi Phil,<br>><br>
> I was wondering, do you have a specific interest in when Perl 6 will be<br>> released, or was this more of a curiosity-driven question?<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> Richard<br>><br>> On Nov 8, 2007 5:37 AM, phil <
<a href="mailto:phil@turboschedule.com">phil@turboschedule.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I asked Damian Conway about the status of Perl6.<br>> > I was encouraged by his reply (cf, below).<br>> ><br>> > -Phil
<br>> > -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> > In part, Damian said:<br>> ><br>> > Perl 6 is very much alive.<br>> ><br>> > We're working very hard on at least three parallel implementation
<br>> > efforts, which are feeding off each other. We also have a complete<br>> > grammar for<br>> > Perl 6 specified (in Perl 6 itself!) so we're moving much closer to<br>> > having a<br>> > full interpreter for the language.
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