[Buffalo-pm] Ponie

Jim Brandt cbrandt at buffalo.edu
Thu Jul 24 11:29:10 CDT 2003


On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 09:15  AM, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Do list members have anything to say about the Pony effort (rewriting
> Perl 5 to use Parrot)?

I was at OSCON for this announcement and some folks seem pretty excited 
about it. For those of you who don't see why this matters, I think the 
main issue is migration from perl 5 to perl 6. This will allow a slow 
migration because you can upgrade to perl 5 running on ponie first, 
then to perl 6. Basically, it allows the two projects to be somewhat 
decoupled.

And it stands for: Ponie: Perl On New Internals Engine

Details are here: http://opensource.fotango.com/ponie/

I think 2 open sourcers who work at fotango are allowed to work half of 
their actual work time on this project. Pretty cool of them (fotango) 
to do that.

Jim

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Jim Brandt
Administrative Computing Services
University at Buffalo




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