Perl 6 is a language specification, tied to a test suite. It will have as many implementations as there are people / teams that wish to implement it. Pugs is a Haskell implementation-in-progress. Rakudo is an implementation-in-progress on top of the Parrot VM. One would expect a JPerl6 and an IronPerl6 too, eventually.
Cheers, - Richard On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Guy Hulbert <gwhulb...@eol.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as > > the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of "Rakudo Perl" in > > a manner to the way that we currently think of "Strawberry Perl" or > > "Vanilla Perl". > > Huh?! ;) > > AFAIK. Strawberry Perl is a binary distribution of perl5 for windows. > > I thought "Rakudo Perl 6" was ( equivalent to "perl5" in the sentence > above ) either "going to become perl6" or "already perl6". > > Is that the case, or > is there not going to be a(n official) "perl6" or > are there going to be many "perl6"s ? > > Yes, I know there is pugs but I thought that was a prototype. > > -- > --gh > > >
