> or written in Perl 6 itself using half-baked Perl 6 to 5 converters Oh, I don't think that ever happened. That might be a reference to viv, which was used t

> or written in Perl 6 itself using half-baked Perl 6 to 5 converters Oh, I don't think that ever happened. That might be a reference to viv, which was used to implement STD (cf http://perl6.org/compilers/std-viv http://perl6.org/compilers/std-viv ). There was also the initial idea that Perl 6 could run Perl 5, but this is proving impossible. Personally, if Rakudo ever starts outperforming Perl5 for practical workloads, I believe that idea might eventually be revisited.