Re: Re^2: My 2004 Perlish Wish

[duffbeer703]

Isn't one of the main cool things about Perl6 the Parrot "master" virtual machine? The VM that's supposed to slice, dice and be a platform for every language from Perl to Prolog?

I hope that I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that the Perl6 people are trying to do too much at once. How many years will it take to delouse a complex language AND multi-language VM and produce something ready for safe production use?

[Aristotle]

Parrot is already shaping up great and shaping up rapidly. The VM will be mature long before the language it is destined to carry. This is the main advantage of doing Perl6 and Parrot separately. It's likely that several other languages will have been ported to and stabilized on Parrot by the time the first serious effort at implementing Perl6 for real even takes place.