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in reply to Re^2: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
in thread Perl 6... do we need another vm?

Most people don't have the need to run arbitrary small programs against large quantities of data, or to run massively threaded programs in a restricted environment, potentially across a large number of machines (distributing the programs with the data).

Not today, no, but more than yesterday and still more tomorrow.