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> You may have to be careful about the camel imagery; I think O'Reilly have
> a legal lock on camel-related graphics in association with Perl. Richard
> Dice can probably give you more details.
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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 Ir
e's a lot to be said for individual
JDFI, which can be very efficient. But it doesn't scale into certain
realms. Maybe this is one of those realms, maybe it isn't.
The plan currently under discussion within TPF is the one written up by
Richard Hainsworth on March 11, with body beg
Hi James,
Your comment suggest you have a particular perspective or point of view.
Without providing a some context I'm afraid I'm going to find some of your
comments confusing.
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> * just release perl 6 now and move on
>
This is one of those confusing comments. There isn't a single p6
implem
rth wrote:
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> > What the perl6 language needs now is a systematic development plan, with
> > broad aims and clear goals that will lead to good quality software and
> > to the tools to enable ordinary programmers to use perl6 for a variety
> > of tasks.
>
> Richard Dic
> I've seen that Daniel Ruoso applied for a grant for his smop project,
> basically a virtual machine and fast backend for kp6, and perhaps other
> implementations.
>
> TPF decided not to invest into yet another implementation.
I appreciate that it is a subtle distinction to make, too subtle to
r
> Their major name recognition as a solid entity could be very helpful in
> attracting major donations prior to Perl 6's first production release.
>
Yes, they appreciate that, which is why they donated to TPF. They wanted to
endorse TPF and p6 to make it easier for others to do so.
Cheers,
- Richard Dice
(President of TPF)
Hi Conrad,
Thanks for following up with this. (I believe we talked about this once
before, quite a while ago.)
I'll be able to follow up with you about this later this weekend. (I'm on
vacation right now, waiting for a flight to get me into Toronto later this
afternoon. Then, laundry, and fina
