[Chicago-talk] What's up with Perl 6?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sun Dec 2 19:47:55 PST 2007


>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> writes:

Andy> Pugs is Perl 6 implemented in Haskell.

Well, an *obsolete* version of Perl 6, since nobody is maintaining
Pugs, even though the Perl 6 definition has changed.

Andy>   The final Perl 6 project will be Perl 6 implemented in Parrot.

No.  The final Perl 6 project will be Perl 6 implemented in Perl 6, with
various translators from that to things like Parrot.

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