On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:44:30AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > > > Realistically, that's not going to happen. The internals of the Perl 5 > interpreter are not flexible enough to implement a lot of the features > that > Perl 6 has that Perl 5 does not. > > Nicholas Clark > > * Or Python 2 to Python 3, as far as I can tell as an outsider. > why can't we write a brand new perl5 interpreter or a better one based on parrot VM if perl6's strength more than perl5 is just internals of the interpreter? it seems Gcc community had a similar discussion about mess of internal. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-03/msg00263.html
