Ponie (Perl 5 on Parrot)

[Ovid]

I confess that I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't been mentioned yet, but Arthur Bergman is now charged with implementing the Ponie project for Fotango/ This project, financed by Fotango, is responsible, for Perl5 being ported to Parrot.

Cheers,
Ovid

Looking for work. Here's my resume. Will work for food (plus salary).
New address of my CGI Course.

[adrianh]

Good god - its only been a few hours. Give people a chance ;-)

The thing I find most pleasing is that we'll get XS support (from the Ponie FAQ):

The guts of Perl 5 will be ripped out and made to work using Parrot PMCs rather than Perl 5 Sv structures, which will mean it will be compatible with Perl 6 . Any XS-based code that uses the published Perl 5 API should work fine without any problems.

XS code was going to need rewriting with previously discussed P5/Parrot layers so this is excellent news.

[Ovid]

You know, I was rather astonished to see my post. I woke up this morning realizing I had posted something and wondered what it was I had to say. Apparently, ActiveState's idea of a party is "what? Are you still standing? Here, drink this."

I've just swallowed three Tylenol and will soon be sending a few more down in search of the first three. OSCON is brutal. Good brutal. I think.

Cheers,
Ovid

Looking for work. Here's my resume. Will work for food (plus salary).
New address of my CGI Course.

[adrianh]

<envy>Those with the free time and cash to go to conferences</envy>

sigh...

[lachoy]

One of the other benefits is Parrot should benefit immensely from having something to run right now versus the bootstrapping problem of being developed in conjunction with Perl6. I know there are other apps for Parrot but AFAICT they're used (and perused) by the very few early adopters. Projects never get developed as fast as when people can use them immediately for what they do everyday.

Chris
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