[Melbourne-pm] Google Wave Anyone?
Timothy S. Nelson
wayland at wayland.id.au
Thu Oct 29 16:51:44 PDT 2009
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Timothy S. Nelson" <wayland at wayland.id.au> writes:
>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>>> (Plus, method-focused OO is baked pretty deeply into Perl, CPAN, and the Perl
>>> interpreter. Given that, diverging would lose the benefit of continuity and
>>> make it just as easy to use some other language — and without CPAN that
>>> really /would/ be compelling.)
>>
>> Perl 6 has Multi-dispatch :).
>> (And will cure cancer, and solve global warming :) ).
>
> ...and be compatible with CPAN, all of which I will believe when they actually
> ship it. Meanwhile it sits in the "other languages" category. ;)
There are two implementations of Perl 6. Rakudo (which runs on
Parrot), and SMOP (which is written in C, designed to integrate with Perl 5,
and doesn't run on Parrot). I expect that SMOP will be able to be work with
CPAN due to integrating well with Perl 5. I'm not sure how Rakudo will
manage.
HTH,
:)
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