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How do you figure that? That comment that you replied to matches reality very well. Perl 6 is nearly 15 years old now. There have been many attempts to impleme
by Pacabel 12y ago
How do you figure that? That comment that you replied to matches reality very well.
Perl 6 is nearly 15 years old now. There have been many attempts to implement it during this time, and none of them have really been usable like Perl 5's implementation is.
I can recall hearing about Rakudo Star, Pugs, Niecza, v6.pm, Yapsi, and Sprixel. There are probably others that I've forgotten about. And that's ignoring NPQ, Perlesque, Parrot and all of the other intermediate implementations and runtimes that have been dabbled with.
There has been a lot of wheel-spinning when it comes to getting Perl 6 implemented. It's like they've tried everything except the proven approach of just writing a plain interpreter using C, like we've seen work well for earlier versions of Perl, Ruby, Python, and so many other languages.