At 8:56 AM -0400 8/3/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >Sorry for the Wayback Machine... > >On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 01:13, Ashley Winters wrote: >> I decided my next step should be to take a look at the PDDs so I know what's >> going on. I would expect them to be like a writer's canon for a TV >>show. I'll >> write my impressions as I go on. >> >> PDD00: >> Does PDD still mean 'Perl Design Document', or should it mean 'Parrot ...'? >> The documents seem to all refer to the interpreter. >> >> While I'm thinking about it, where will 'Parrot' leave off and >>'Perl6' begin? >> At some point, it will be inappropriate to discuss the Parrot interpreter on >> a Perl6 list, since Perl6 might have JVM/CLR backends, and Parrot might have >> Python/Ruby frontends. > >These are both questions I asked a long time ago, for which I received >no sufficient answers. So PDD 0, at least, remained as it was.
D'oh! I need to catch up with my mail. Feel free to throw patches to the list about it, though. > >From a coding/design perspective, there was at least a thread starting >at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03748.html > >As a matter of fact, looking at it more closely indicates that this was >actually annotated with CVS version 1.2 of PDD 0. Original threads: >http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08677.html >http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08678.html > >As you can see, I was dilemma'd about it, too. :-) Oh, the irony! :) -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
