[Chicago-talk] What's up with Perl 6?
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Sun Dec 2 18:38:42 PST 2007
>
> I'm not sure if I really get what Pugs is. I think:
> Perl6 is a language specification. Pugs reads Perl6 source and
> executes it, but instead of being written in C, its written is
> Haskell?
Pretty much, yes. Pugs is Perl 6 implemented in Haskell. The final
Perl 6 project will be Perl 6 implemented in Parrot.
See also this article: http://perlbuzz.com/2007/11/a-roadmap-for-perl-6-and-parrot.html
and the roadmap it points to.
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