>>>>> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DC> Thank-you. But I have to contend with the inflation of expectations.
DC> Last year I wow'd them with simple quantum physics. This year, I needed
DC> a quantum cellular automaton simulation of molecular thermodynamics
DC> written in Klingon. What will it take next year???
DC> ;-)
a fully functional perl6 in 1 page of self modifying (at the parser
level, of course) perl6 code.
hey, if lisp can do it, why not perl6?
:)
>> It vaguely worries me though that we'll be so far down the
>> language side when implementation troubles arise that it will
>> be hard to change the language.
DC> I'm really not worried about that. Larry has consistently demonstrated
DC> he's open to reassessing his design decisions when necessary.
and there is nothing we are doing in the implementation so far that is
restricting the language. we are actually making parrot more flexible to
support other langauges. i can see a day where python and ruby, etc. are
defaulting to using the parrot back end as it will be faster, and
compatible with perl etc. imagine the work reduction if all/most of the
interpreted languages can share one common back end.
uri
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