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Hi. Thanks for the link! I'm sure you noticed, the original title was "How to implement Perl 6 in '10", where '10 was meant to refer to the year 2010... Though I guess "10 minutes" is a valid, if unexpected, interpretation of "'10". Enjoy! :-)
Hi. Thanks for the link! I'm sure you noticed, the original title was "How to implement Perl 6 in '10", where '10 was meant to refer to the year 2010... Though I guess "10 minutes" is a valid, if unexpected, interpretation of "'10". Enjoy! :-)
Audrey, how do you think the combination of Rakudo and Parrot is coming along? Do you like the overall design of this Perl 6 implementation?
In addition, I try to remind myself of the Confucian Analects: If one does not hold the post, one refrains from contemplating in the affairs of that post... (不在其位，不謀其政)
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Audrey, how do you think the combination of Rakudo and Parrot is coming along? Do you like the overall design of this Perl 6 implementation?
I think the overall design is sound, and the bus number of Rakudo is higher than Pugs.hs, so it's good. :-) In addition, I try to remind myself of the Confucian Analects: If one does not hold the post, one refrains from contemplating in the affairs of that post... (不在其位，不謀其政)
Coming from the python community, I have to wonder how much exchanges like this have contributed to the delay: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=835742
Probably 80%+, in the early ages. Troll alchemy - I mean troll hugging - is a subtle art, and it took us many years to get the main development channels into reasonable civility. For example, http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/today has been quite gentle for the past 5 years or so. I guess when one builds a language (Perl) modeled after a natural language (English), one attracts quite a diverse crowd, as basic literacy…