Perl implemented in Perl for Perl 6

Scott Penrose scottp at dd.com.au
Thu Jul 10 22:11:45 CDT 2003


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On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 13:09 Australia/Melbourne, Stas Bekman 
wrote:

> Scott Penrose wrote:
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>>> I believe that the plan is to make perl5 the second non-trivial 
>>> language
>>> ported to parrot, (there is a working BASIC implementation already in
>>> place).
>>>
>>> I'll see what more I can find out about it....
>> Stas pointed out it is called ponie.
>>  http://www.poniecode.org/
>> What ponie is doing is to take the Perl 5 Core and make it generate 
>> Parrot.
>> It also has some extra compatibility layers for shared objects in C 
>> to be linked in in the current XS style.
>
> AFAIK, it's the other way around. Use parrot to write perl-5.10.

OOOOHHHH.... Now that would be way cool - doesn't look like it from the 
site notes though. It seems that it is going to use Perl 5 engine 
(starting with the current code) and strip out the backend vm and 
things that specifically create code for the VM and replace the VM with 
Parrot and parrot opcodes rather than the Perl 5 VM opcodes.

But maybe I am reading that wrong.

Either way - I am excited :-)

Scott
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