Quoth enoba...@gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm): > # from Jonathan Rockway > # on Thursday 19 November 2009 07:06: > > >The real reason for the lack of another Perl VM is that Perl > > programmers are very, very lazy. ;) > > In this case, you mean 'perl' programmers. :-D > > I seem to recall that we have a pressing need for another perl5 VM to > deliver on the promise of being able to run your perl5 code in perl6 > programs.
Not really. Just embed the existing perl 5 interpreter, with a shim layer to translate. It's the same, really, as Inline::Java. (When I say 'just'... :) ) Ben