On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:47:56AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > We are getting off topic here, but it's still an interesting discussion.
> Yes, I know Linux has all of its code rewritten from scratch. However, it > doesn't mean it's not UNIX-compatible. If someone writes a Perl 5-compatible > implementation from scratch and it passes all the relevant tests and behaves > according to perl*.pod it would still be a Perl implementation. That's just > like there are (too) many Scheme implementations that are all mostly R5RS > compatible. That's actually now the definition of Perl 6. "It passes the tests" I agree with everything else you said. Nicholas Clark
