4 ms·

> The idea was laudable but it would have required buy-in from the other communities But imagine how cool it would have been - write a class in Python, sub-cl

by krylon 9y ago

> The idea was laudable but it would have required buy-in from the other communities But imagine how cool it would have been - write a class in Python, sub-class it from Ruby, use that subclass in a function written in Perl, call that function from Lua code... Okay, I see it now. It was just too awesome for its time. Maybe in a hundred years or so...

bigleagueposter 9y ago
JVM is now becoming what Parrot was intended to be with Graal/Truffle.
- krylon 9y ago
  I guess so. But without Perl 5 and Perl 6 it is just not going to be the same. (Pouty face)
  - mst 9y ago
    Step 1. Fix Rakudo on the JVM Step 2. Fix the perl5-in-perl6 work Step 3. Retreat to a corner and sob until you recover some SAN points
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]